give me/this life
Goddess, seven suns ago
you were bright, we were swift
we were fascinating
desert horses pounding the sands
beneath the sun
This sparkling dream we lost ourselves in
this entrancing fable told after dark
through the wires, through the screens
we are again a nymph and her lover
running through the tangled jungle
We were dun horses
bleached by your fierce sun
and reborn
into crippled bodies
shattered minds
ready to teach us a lesson
and we tell each other fables
of a thousand million years ago
losing ourselves in our own stories
losing ourselves in our past pain
We were blood bay horses
thundering under a dying sun
The wind blows across the sand now.
It's empty of horses and we are human
as we were born, as humans
we will die
and these fables we weave
nearly choke me
And I was naked
heartrent
torn from limb to limb
and you took your stories
your horses running underneath
a mutual sun
and went
I stand upright.
Clothe myself in the ragged
remnants of my human story
square my shoulders
and walk off
over the sand
into the sunrise
I'm looking for the ocean
returning to the sea.
--10.1.00