Texas Intentions

I am going back to Texas

Texas bound to say good-bye

I am going to take care of unfinished business

It is time to wipe the slate clean

I am going to throw a dozen yellow roses

Into the muddy Comal River outside New Braunfels

I’m going to drown some memories

And finally write the end to our love story where it started

I am going to cry some tears in my beer

At the Firehouse Saloon in Houston

I am going to say some prayers, cut my roots and let go of our past

Release the pain my ego is so attached to

I am going to throw some rose quartz crystals

Far into Galveston Bay

I am going to fill them full of intention and forgiveness

For both you and me

I am going to drive by my old family homestead

in Anderson, Texas where my clan first started in the 1800’s

I am going to toast my family with a pint-sized carton of Blue Bell Ice cream

And ask God to forgive all of their misdeeds

I am going to visit my older brother’s grave

In downtown Austin, Texas

I am going to leave a little teddy bear that he never got to play with

And pray he knows his baby sister has always loved him

When all the others have forgotten his mere three days of breathing

I am going back to Texas

I’m Texas bound to say good-bye

I am going to take care of unfinished business

It is time to wipe the slate clean.

- Julie O'Hara

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