Side-Swiped
(For M.R.T.)
His story cuts me to the quick.
secrets told after
an intimacy shared,
perhaps too soon.
Voice breaking,
heart broken
but spirit strong
after six
very short, very long years
And I know exactly what he means
when he tells me
he lost everything that day.
Everything..
After he put down his weapon,
before he surrendered himself,
he found his straight edge.
The piece
of the puzzle of his life
that let him
begin again.
Lindsay Riggs Brown
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