Man's Best Friend / by Christy Crosson

My Worst Habit

My worst habit is I get so tired of winter, I become a torture to those I'm with.

If you're not here, nothing grows. I lack clarity. My words, tangle and knot up.

How to cure bad water? Send it back to the river.

How to cure bad habits? Send me back to you.

When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom, to the ocean. There is a secret medicine, given only to those who hurt so hard, they can't hope.

The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.

Look as long as you can at the friend you love, no matter whether that friend is moving away from you, or coming back to you.

Rumi - for jeb