to make a pilgrimage

To Make A Pilgrimage
Is to breathe air so cool
it make you weep
Is to erase the escape route
with a signature and wade
through wooded streams
dividing a land that was never yours
in the first place. To Make A Pilgrimage
is to suddenly love dogs
and house music,
to look in the mirror
and like what you see, to ask
for forgiveness from those
who inhabited and abused your body
To be okay with being alone
To Make A Pilgrimage
is to force forget
the smell of the sea
Crest-covered sunsets, where you can
take a bite out of heaven, and instead
Sit Alone in some woods
and write a poem
and conquer your colony
And repeat these words and
You, Pilgrim, are happy