Fall and Shine
 

Sorrow felt, creating tears of life
Salt rubbed wounds
Falling from a face of light
The sun - burnt into my flesh 
Warm like the skin of a yawning lion
Basking in the pride of his family
The owl shakes and shudders
Peaks behind his shoulder
Both left and right
Before he too cleanses his soul
In the still waters of the night

I've come home. I've remembered

I have woken from my slumber
in the form of a giant
I am grey with teeth of ivory and ancient

I sing with the whales
I sleep with the dogs
I speak from the heart
I transform like the frog
I tend to the alchemic garden within
I dance in the rain
I hear your cries for silence
I sit with the pain

The key to my success is my imagination
I dream my world into being
Nothing is beyond my control
For there is no control
There is simply the unfolding
Unfurling
Unraveling
Unwinding
Unifying
River and ocean
Mountain and land
Sky and cosmos
Inside and out
Back and forth
Wave after wave after wave
No seperarion between you and me
And yet clearly fractals
In one big picture

Three kings, sitting alongside many queens
Before the rainbow children
The warriors, seeking direction
For the future
From the past
To act in the present

Here and now I say to you:
Be calm my child
The world is at war
Yet you need not pick a side
This is no man's land
Let your words be the weapons of mass deconstruction
Let your eyes be the daggers
Through the illusionary bubbles of hot air
Channel anger towards life
And celebrate death
Be the father you could have
Hug your mother goodbye and hello
Let the wind blow through your golden hair
Only when the moment is ripe
And in that moment:

Fall and Shine

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by Chris Auret