By Galadrial
Date: 2012 Jul 24
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Meg's House

Meg's place whispers
of hand stitched quilts
made of odds and ends
for warmth and comfort,
a corner of a world
I have never known
but needed to my soul.

No screaming there,
or absurd commandments,
no hurtful barbs
offered with coffee,
or stirred into tea
as if it were spice.

I stood in front of Meg's place
and could not believe
that the same life had brought me there
that had carried me to you,
made me love, then made me lose
every bit of myself in trade.

I never believed in second chances,
but then I had never seen Meg's place
on a perfect day in July,
while you free wheeled
the road to Sturgis
confident that your world was intact,
while your one defiant prisoner
was pickling the locks,
and on the wind of her own making.