{poetry}

Breath

​I woke up breathing past the wind
Believing it would leave
And fall along the distance
It would take my love to grieve

The stone air coldly on my throat
Like washing over rain
The earth forgot the sunrise
Over my homehearted lane

A mind is something that forgets
What tree leaves always know
That every lull's imagined
By the wind's eternal show

There is no air that rises with
The heat of newborn rays
If all your breath's surrounded
By the unpierced whitening haze

If I knew I’d breathe again
I'd have more faith in wind
With blindness trees don't sway
Along and every leaf is pinned

Should nothing ever move again
Beneath my stolen eyes
What difference would the sun
Then make to everything that dies?

The wind finds coolness from the heat
By rushing into space
That's emptied out before it
To the newborn stillness place

But with no new breath to rise
Up from my whitened chest
There's no sun left to shine
And see the morning's glowing crest

And so I wait a dying's time
For one that's never here
Remembering what I
Forgot until the memory's clear

In perfect stillness towards the dawn
I see what I can't see
I taste the wind that's ended
By the light hidden from me

The warmth that fills the coolness
And the rush that keeps the dawn
The faith that makes the leaves
Go falling on and on

I miss the dying and the fall
The part that passes by
I miss the moment ending
When the spring begins to die

And rushing back to me I feel
The wind fall back inside
My body slowly rising back
To breathing's holy glide

At last the wind's returned to me
The heaven of before
And I see the light
I don’t remember anymore

11/1/2015