Soft moonlight
casts a pale glow
across her small face-
She now knows.
She is breathing deeply
& that ripple of a memory
of another time and place
flows through me.
Her calm isn’t because
of any rescuer,
Stronger than a mountain
and steady like a river-
I know her well-
because
she
is
my
self-
Her newfound peace
is as light as air //
& her hero was me.
