Monday, December 25, 2023

Celebrating Bill Withers: “Lean on Me”

 

Upon holiday skates—listening as we do—asking more questions. 

The wreckage has passed, or is it immortal?

I would eat history, similar to sea grass, trekking and trailing marsh-grounds, 

I needed to Lean In, to Hold Tightly, to share the Weight. 

The debt of it is the friendship. 

At a shoreline, ebbing and flowing, watching as we do. 

Those that lived, their beauty, the way we’d Lean In; 

Such naturality. Such precious memories. To unzip a diary and see a face.

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