You keep your quiet,
the drawn blinds at 2pm,
the free matchbooks you acquired
in rooms with Gideon Bibles,
and I will let you have them,
give back the highways and the roads,
travel only on pathways with names
and not numbers,
and we will see in the end
who can stand the sound of the sea,
whether you are the shore or the waves
as the rocks are slowly turned to sand.

By Heidi Turner