Born unto this world
With opaque angelic eyes.
Crystalline soft air, you breathed,
Vibrating with life, as strings on a harp.
And in tinkling laughter and claps of hands,
Like a firefly you lit up the world.
In pure reflective light you shined,
As if a cluster of stars had been placed
Around you, and the world had
Magically conjured, your luminosity.
You were only a little sparrow.
Who was learning how to fly,
With the gentlest spirit and kindest eyes,
But you were all too human, a blazing candle,
Which this bitter, hard rock planet
Crumpled underfoot, and you melted,
Leaving, weeping waterfalls and stone
And the unchanging shadow of your smile.