Danielle Perry

sun square neptune

you were twenty / when you realized / that you asked the impossible / of the people you loved // you wanted them to
save you / to love you / into wholeness // you wanted them / to be the missing piece: / that which would finally heal
you // it took a hermit’s year / to realize that of course / you are that missing piece // it is not such an easy thing //
(the temptation to slip down / into arms that promise / a salvation they cannot grant / is always there) // but / you
have finally learned / how to play the game / & not lose everything