Maybe Someday

Maybe someday
You’ll find it in your heart

To branch out
To reach out
To take the tendrils of your soul and embrace
The incongruity
In continuity
Of the human existence


Maybe someday
The ache you feel pulsating inside your chest
Will no longer be a painful reminder
Of the things that you missed
But instead

They will be the gateway
    Stairway
      Hidden hallway

To your innermost soul


Maybe someday
You will crack open your rib cage
And bare out your soul
Challenging
  Captivating
    Catastrophizing
Urging those who ogle
to turn the pages
Of your mangled soul
Rub their fingertips through the gouges
Left by harsh tongues
And even more dangerous silences


Maybe someday
You will allow your soul
To be painstakingly reworked
Carefully plundered
From the scrap bin in which you have banished
This burnished soul


Maybe someday
Maybe someone
Will carve their way
So deep into the crevasse
Between your sternum and spine

That where one of you begins
And the other one ends
Are no more than some dreamers
Lucid belief

Maybe someday
You will allow
Your soul to be exposed
To the exfoliating scrapes
Of true love
Whatever the fuck that is


And maybe someday
You’ll realize that every tumble and tarnish
Every chip and every crack
Was absolutely worth it
To unearth
Whatever
This is


Maybe someday