A Gem in my Cluttered Mind

I lost it that night

My earring

The one with the green beads

Now it's gone

Well, it's somewhere, unlike the person I used to be

The one I think about but don't really miss

But I kind of miss wearing those dangly earrings

I would have lost it anyway

Or stored both forever in a messy little box

But I lost it that day

With you

That night

Watching the stars

I kept the other earring to protect that moment

In a box with other memories that didn't fit my mind

But, I'll never forget

Feeling grateful with gravity and confused with reality

Wondering about those turtles that go all the way down

Breathing cold and moist calmness into my lungs 

And feeling the spikiness of the moist grass beneath me with the tips of my fingers 

Darkness guiding my focus only on those distant stars

-Fratercula arctica