Lifecycle

a set of poems

  Come to me my little one
and in between heart beats, join with me
To move as one
I will dance the scent of soft skin in the night of your presence
We are.

 Two souls blink out of one pair of eyes
You are of me "and not.
Two souls, one pair of eyes.

Welcome.

Sleep, oh sleep my little one
Long day is done and gone
Your sigh escapes pink lips
And fades on dusk’s magenta sky.
Eyes of unceasing curiosity
Let go their vision
And lashes brush softest cheeks where they lie.
Sleep, oh sleep my little one
Night holds you fast
Between her darkened clouds
Stars wink their promises
As they cast your future with twinkling reserve
Their bright faces toward you.

I lag behind. My to-do list spills
Over into the crevices of my heart
As I try not to lose sight of love
In the midst of mountains of laundry.
Carpools and homework dominate.
I am too tired to dance now.
Time moves past us like sheets in the wind
Flapping so fast it is hard to see the ground.

Storm warnings.
Grey turbulent skies
Heavy with portent
Weigh heavily against my skin.
The skin that used to sing
Now chafes as winds blow.
In between squalls, we talk a bit
Before dark clouds gather again.

Fearful for you
I am swamped and mired in this letting go.
I face one way-
You another.
Fingers touching across a wide divide.
You turn, unconcerned
For I remain
Fingers part
You go.



Time to help me sleep my little one.
Long day is done and gone
A sigh escapes dry lips
And crosses the short path
Between life and death, hovering there
To slowly fade into the pink of dusk.

So short my time with you.
A blink, a nod, a turn of the head
Time closes its door upon me
My soul, bound to yours.

In you, the stars fulfilled their promises
Bright, your soul shines, so clear and strong
And blazes the way before me.
Fill me way with light as I turn and walk now.
Pink is now magenta.
Close my eyes, lashes rest now on slackened skin.

We have danced, souls touched
My skin has sung the song of our being together.
Until the next time?

 

 

Author's Note

So I am not sure what to do with this now---

Reviews

[EMMIE]

I CAN SO PICTURE THIS IN MY HEAD. YOU ARE SUCH A BRILLIANT WRITER. YOU PAINT THE PRETTIEST PICTURE AND THIS POEM MAKES ME SO HAPPY! LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!

[J. J. Nightingale]

Together in a beginning .. dancing the dances .. welcoming new souls from our own ... touching .. loving.. sharing all .. now and forever ..

I love your words of LIFE .. Jasmine