The sun fell open down the sky,
and tumbled from her womb a moon.
Behind the moon a curtain fell,
an inky swell with light stuck through.
So from the sky a light fell down
to beam upon an upturned face.
A face that for a moment shone -
it flickered then it died away.
And for a time it felt engulfing.
A moment tangled round me.
The light was bent about my shape,
it quietly embraced me.
While still, surrounded by its grasp,
the ground that held me shrank away.
I rose and to the surface broke,
and pregnant, found myself unmade.
I looked upon our coiling earth,
a shrinking trace of blue and green.
And on the earth i saw my face,
it shone, it blazed with light.
Then falling down towards myself
I stumble and am born again.
I close my eyes, for one last time
As on I walk into the night.