Perch

again, what if
you are there
but its not where everyone thought
and you are
but not who everyone said
i love you as a child loves another
not expecting, but then, knowing
they will not ever be children
not ever the same
and someday, maybe
one will not recognize the other
or not find her in the place she last was
still in the end, or whatever it will be
their hearts are shorn
with found love for the new one
changed irremediably
but the same heart that
had fallen from its child's perch

may 10, 2011