I landed here
Alone
Deposited.
Instinctively
I searched for friendly faces
Guides and teachers
To show me who I was
And where to go.
This body, face and family
Was not me.
My clothes, my voice, my knowledge
Was not me.
I needed help
I was a human and had human need:
Hope,heart and humour were a start.
I landed first on Mars and sought protection from a mighty arm
But arms that hug can hold too tightly and too long.
So up to Jupiter I looked
'Oh father Sky God, keep me safe!'
But, 'Oh by Jove!' The auspices that came as doves
Brought thunder too
And frightened me.
To Uranus I fled, and fled again as he detested me
And meant me harm.
The weekend beckons; Saturn's next, the Golden Age of Man
Feast and plenty
Five and twenty.
But no! Move on. The moon awaits
And love and lust and Soma from the gods-
But werewolves howl and madness lurks.
Neptune swims by and draws me in
To nuptials
And I float awhile upon the tide,
Losing myself in another.
Pluto gives me wealth
But rules the underworld
Where wealth can take you
If you bide its rules.
A young man next, so fare of face,an orator,
A man of letters: Mercury, quick silver
Changing with the wind.
A messenger, a vessel merely
He steals and is the God of thieves.
A thief who tends the dying.
Nothing is his or of him; he takes and smiles and moves then moves on.
And then to Mother Earth,
The Titan, Gaia.
And what is earth?
The dirt beneath my feet from which I look up
To the heavens.
My feet are black and bruised
My eyes are open
My toes can feel the grit
I feel the air upon my face.
This now is me.
Sep 14, 2016
Sep 14, 2016 at 10:25 AM UTC
I landed here
Alone
Deposited.
Instinctively
I searched for friendly faces
Guides and teachers
To show me who I was
And where to go.
This body, face and family
Was not me.
My clothes, my voice, my knowledge
Was not me.
I needed help
I was a human and had human need:
Hope,heart and humour were a start.
I landed first on Mars and sought protection from a mighty arm
But arms that hug can hold too tightly and too long.
So up to Jupiter I looked
'Oh father Sky God, keep me safe!'
But, 'Oh by Jove!' The auspices that came as doves
Brought thunder too
And frightened me.
To Uranus I fled, and fled again as he detested me
And meant me harm.
The weekend beckons; Saturn's next, the Golden Age of Man
Feast and plenty
Five and twenty.
But no! Move on. The moon awaits
And love and lust and Soma from the gods-
But werewolves howl and madness lurks.
Neptune swims by and draws me in
To nuptials
And I float awhile upon the tide,
Losing myself in another.
Pluto gives me wealth
But rules the underworld
Where wealth can take you
If you bide its rules.
A young man next, so fare of face,an orator,
A man of letters: Mercury, quick silver
Changing with the wind.
A messenger, a vessel merely
He steals and is the God of thieves.
A thief who tends the dying.
Nothing is his or of him; he takes and smiles and moves then moves on.
And then to Mother Earth,
The Titan, Gaia.
And what is earth?
The dirt beneath my feet from which I look up
To the heavens.
My feet are black and bruised
My eyes are open
My toes can feel the grit
I feel the air upon my face.
This now is me.