Responsibility
Taos, NM, 2009

For what?
For whom?
Is anyone responsible for me?
No.

I know that, yet why do I feel responsible for others?
Letting that one go
Is what needs to happen
Here, soon

I drive alone across the mesa at night
Stars over sage
Prairie dogs, rats, coyotes and beetles cross the road
I drive over the Rio Grande gorge bridge
A drop of 650 feet below
A quick swerve is all it would take
To change everything
Only I am responsible for that action

What will it take for me to let go of feeling
The heavy wetness of responsibility
For others?

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