I've known heights, aimed like a bullet
to the top of the head.
Forbidden songs, jagging
placid landscapes.
Waterblood waterbone --
my body cries out to me.
How long the abuse, how long!
In the barreled pit of my sober life
up from common sense--snapping into it,
my soul came alive.
Alive I say!
By grace I breached.
Free in the wind!
Kingdoms of water, alive kingdoms --
hear now the words of my tears.
Mea Culpa!
I slam on the brakes, tear off the roofs
of steel compartments.
I see sky and feel in daylight every hidden star.
I declare -- the emperor of death
has no clothing.
I scatter forgiveness
across all the fattened streets.
Oceans of me are singing.
A spinning angels' symphony.
Over the graves of ancestors, I vow:
Water, I shall love you.
I shall speak up, shall protect you.
I shall fight for you and die
if I must.
Ten times ten give my very life
-- that you live.
Sep 20, 2018
Sep 20, 2018 at 12:29 AM UTC
I've known heights, aimed like a bullet
to the top of the head.
Forbidden songs, jagging
placid landscapes.
Waterblood waterbone --
my body cries out to me.
How long the abuse, how long!
In the barreled pit of my sober life
up from common sense--snapping into it,
my soul came alive.
Alive I say!
By grace I breached.
Free in the wind!
Kingdoms of water, alive kingdoms --
hear now the words of my tears.
Mea Culpa!
I slam on the brakes, tear off the roofs
of steel compartments.
I see sky and feel in daylight every hidden star.
I declare -- the emperor of death
has no clothing.
I scatter forgiveness
across all the fattened streets.
Oceans of me are singing.
A spinning angels' symphony.
Over the graves of ancestors, I vow:
Water, I shall love you.
I shall speak up, shall protect you.
I shall fight for you and die
if I must.
Ten times ten give my very life
-- that you live.
this is how water (which is so under attack from all sides on our planet) spoke through me 9.23.18, around the time of fall equinox.
