Day 20 #napowrimo - day 14 #the100dayproject - Homemade from Reno, NV

Homemade from Reno, NV

You found those bits of oak leaf

on a hike near Lake Tahoe and

collaged them on top of a photo

of pool water cut from a magazine.

You signed your name with a heart

and two years since you sent it

to say Merry Christmas and we

still have it. The edges of glue

yellowing from sunlight, the leaves

deteriorating.

Broke, fresh out of

college, living in a town far from home.

young and naive with your ambitions;

you want to save the world.

And I wanted to shelter you from

The truth. That none of it is as easy

                                           as it seems.

But you made this in the small space

of your shared apartment, bought

a stick of glue with your last dollar

and a postage stamp with your credit card.

I have not words except you’ve already

saved us, you’ve saved the world.