How do you capture
A song
In the wind
Asked the little girl
Beneath the cherry tree

She held the ocean
In her eyes
A reflection of the sky
Its darkness
And its light
Surrounded by the feathers
Of each bird
In flight

How do you sing
To the waves
A payment
For them to allow you
To breathe
Above their surface?

She flung these questions
Tied onto a pebble
Into the river
That ran
Tied to her floating soul

How do you fall in love
She wrote
Finally
Too late
When she was old

Wearing a wedding ring
That began to slip
Off of her pale knuckles
Magnetized
To the soul
She once had
Breaking at the rapids