Try again

Listen

To the words

she says

The first time around

Watch how they build brick roads for your departure

They are Sirens

You should take notice of

Pay attention to how

You are offered opportunities

One after the other

To take cover

And hold yourself as the tender thing you are

Pay attention to the way you choose to refuse

How you

Woman of rock and lava formation

will shed skin after skin

Until you are the very shape of open

So that when you are left

With the same questions, you’ve asked yourself before

Wondering, where this distance come from?

Or how you arrived in this barren landscape

You will have the answers

You will not need to beg at her ankles for explanation

You will not shrink until you evaporate

You will know

You did not listen,

Take the time,

This time.  to heal

And then, try

again.