sometimes,
we water the garden with tears from our soul
sometimes,
our light invites growth
sometimes,
entire years...
decades
are turned under
into compost
but not for our soul
because our soul is a piece of starlight,
starlight, child, you are starlight
even in death
life springs forth from our
bodies
a snake
swallowing its tail
this world
falls unto itself
sigh
and he took my hand again
even as it turned to ashes
burning into new feathers
spreading my wings
i called back
come fly with me to the heavens
let us be carried away from this
brutal place
and be two birds on the winds of forever
gliding between stars
in the smooth indigo of space
the breathless, weightless, surrender
of angels hovering in the dusk of life
leave the snakes
to consume themselves
and spirit ourselves
away to the stars
aiiieeee!
hear my starlight call
and be done with all darkness
every child is born
a child of god
to be christened in the noon-day sun
turned by the seasons
reasoned by grace
birthed holy by the screams of pain
we all arrive
at the gates of our destiny
