The one thing I wanted but never seem to find.
I am myth now more than sinew.
The legend overgrown.
The story  w/its own inertia 
Set in motion forever ago.
I am enwrapped and entwined 
Sometimes I think I could escape.
Go to the woods and lose myself in the brambles 
Disappear from view but life is still a shambles.

A devil’s bargain taken.
I didn’t understand it’s making.
Oh they all want me. Want to know.
For a time.
Share my bed for a night or two.
A moment shared. Of just a few
Nothing more.
And I am left to pick their things up off the floor.

All I ever wanted was a home 
Someone to come home to when I roam.
And I am not so foolish to scorn all that life has given me.
Precious and wild and god has forgiven me.

And yet I sit here in the quiet morning
Sipping coffee and the cats are purring.
And I wonder what it is I’m doing wrong.
Why it is I never learned this particular song.

I pick over the broken chords and can only hum along to a chorus. Not knowing the words that form us.