Laura Marcoux

Teach me to be wild
and still
Teach me to go
where I will
How to wither until 
I expire.

Teach me how to leave 
And to stay
To be solid
And washed away with time or
With water.

Teach me to be colorful
Like rainbows and rust 
Teach me to love
Without trust 
To carry only what I must or
What remains.  

Teach me to imagine
Without hope.
How to grieve
But not cope
How to be tied 
To the end of my rope and
To let go.

Teach me how to know
Without learning
How to hunger
Without yearning
When to find solace in the burning or in
The ashes.

Teach me how to whisper
From my heart
How to be a whole world
Filled with art
Teach me how to sense
When to start or when
To rest.

Teach me to be open 
Like fields and the sky
In return, I’ll abandon the how
For the why 
Forever I promise to believe 
but not try. 

To breath
Is to die.

Teach me to be wild
And still.