Ha
damn,
you did it.

my most dear
and precious Alexandria,
and we're safe to use that name here
as it's been slowly wrapped
into a whisper over many moon
rises and settings
of the sun.

you
just
traced a circle in the wind
around 17 years, tied
the moments of that story
into the most amazing bow
and with a laugh the world will never hear
gave that back
to me.

so here's to you my
hardest and favorite fascination, my angel
in a crowd of thieves, my emerald pennace,
my porn star on a harley, my sweetest
little girl waiting to be loved, my brave mother
with a halo, and how much
you used to hate it when
i'd call you out
on how lovely you truly
are.

and look at how and where
and who we've been, with this
this incredible little life tip-
toeing underneath the blades
of grass, below
each and every of our confused
and clumsy
footsteps from then
to now, but with
and, don't forget
the swagger.

and it's been years since I said goodbye,
to the ghost you left
lying next to me, and what a delight
and honor, what a great amen, what a
right on right on, to know
that everything I've truly seen
truly is
everything I've truly seen.