Eclipse lyrics
by MARINA
Change didn't come quickly.
It came in slowly, tentatively,
like a child on their first day at school.
Its foundation sifted in with the wind each night,
grain by grain, layer by layer. Until one day I woke up
and realized I had walls. I had somehow become a
home for myself.
The roots of trauma, now yellowed and withered, fell
away in the wind.
The past no longer hot gossip I exploded onto friends.
And the men
I met were
different.
Gentle, complete
beings who knew
themselves well.
No need to impress
or prove their wealth
I realized I did it.
I’d built my own life
And I did it without
having to be a
mother or a wife
Slowly but surely
my desire to change
had finally eclipsed
my desire to stay the same.