Enough
He’s tired lines crayon drawn deep
One arm lifts securing metal clip to button
Blinking against the sun that never stays long enough
He fights the rain, the wind, the night, every day
A deep breath in and again inside he doubts
He is enough
He’s bowed slightly at back and knee
Time ticking is hard and heavy on the flesh
Working is living so life goes on and on with her
There’s much to be done and doing is his job
A deep breath in and again inside he doubts
He is enough
She’s dusty white her hair, her face
Rising up to meet the first kiss of light
Day in day out night in night out with him
Her life is this doing and there is much to be done
A deep breath in and again inside she knows
He is enough
She’s strong in those thinning spaces
Weathering the dysfunction of earth and sky
Some days are silent with nothing spoken
No whisper of skin to unravel the knot
A deep breath in and again inside she knows
He is enough
Pale moons over parchment fields
Cooling the brow of upheaved earth
A pattern knitted in the marrow of bone
Love released in duty and sacrifice
A deep breath in and again inside they know
They are enough
Sunrise to sunset and everything between
The rise and fall of every heavy step
A percussion pressed into the earth forever
A history written of blood and wood and iron
A deep breath in and again inside we know
We are enough
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