3/2/2023 – they all lay bare

I have but one heart for to give
One soul to join a pair
One body that by yours can live
For you they all lay bare

2/28/2023 – long forgotten

Float with me here
Where the clouds break
Under a sky of gods
Over a storied place
Full of ancient tales
And ancient words
And ancient wisdom

That we might find a way
To breathe air long unbreathed
And know things
Long forgotten

It was amidst the broken snow
Beneath the new spring sun
As brown and green began to grow
And melt began to run

There did I find the seed we’d sown
So careful in the soil
Gone bright and lively, not undone
By winter’s frozen toil

Each age is a season
Each year but an hour
The days fleeting moments

A shadowed path, soft green with moss
Lies there before my feet
Red trees and yellow their leaves toss
And life and death there meet

To walk upon it is to know
The truth the sages say:
‘Twixt light and shadow you must go
To throw your cares away

I listen
And you call out
I watch
And you appear
I wait
And you come

Though I have often fallen from
The mores that I pursue
I still seek high, and often some
Great truth comes into view

It is with great surrender that
This wisdom I receive
And oft I must remember that
‘Twill e’er be a reprieve

It is between the softest shadows
That hidden truths do hide

There will come a day
When we will hear all the grasses sing
And see all the paints upon a bright world

There will come a day
When we will feel the stories underfoot
And know by name the voices on the wind

And when that day comes
I will hold you
And you me
And we will walk as stars across the sky

With sudden fire my heart alights
And fills with ancient song
To hold so close to storied sights
It runs and leaps along