If music were Arrhythmic it would consider us On tinsel wire lit into net to beads Eternally reaping The clink of solar windmills Echoing, echoing until it becomes flesh, Tired, ringing decibels Filling with water and becoming eyes So that Death is a character Swimming just past the horizon; Collisions become heartbeats Become locomotive thoughts Charging westerly winds Until our faces hone, stormed And born. Only my soul is left to fall, Cygnus x-1 in a pool, My life a distant call Catalogued by the stars, Noted for declination; classified pulsar My words are dust in another’s space But they recall fire and I blazed; Numerically, years; Physically, rage And the only thing that breathed were dreams And they sail, eternally, past the rhyme (Time) They’ll still float when I return to haunt you; They cast no light but they guide and sigh. Alive