I reach back through memory and mortality To inspire that which I am to become Exciting the bones of my ancestors Their feathers of black and red and white The golden rays of dead and declining stars Deflecting off the face of the moon "Is life still real if it echoed?" "Yeeess," they exhale from eons past. The first and only answer to an ageless urge Stretching to me, through me Filling the unfathomable empty With intimacy and evidence New issues to nurture Most seeds remain in the shadows Dreaming of a shift in the design Stardust progressing toward potential Again and again and again And again the bond is broken And refashioned I am remembered In unsettled frenzy, my soul awakens Setting alight my future