Cheekbones

With your
fingertips
touch your
cheekbones
and your
breastbone
and your
kneecaps.

This is you.

You are not
the writer
of that
novel you
just finished
with your
eyes
swimming.

You are not
that guy
across the street
who never lets
his gutters
get stuffed
with leaves
the way
yours are.

You are not
twenty pounds
lighter or
twenty years
younger.

Until you are
astonished
with your
good fortune
to be
The One
with those
cheekbones
and that
breastbone
and those
kneecaps,

it’s going
to be more
difficult
than it needs
to be
for you

to give us
the gifts
you came
all the way
here to
give us.

Take as long
as you need.
We’ll wait.

(Photo by Houcine Ncib; UnSplash)