Birth

Ivy labyrinth of light and lies

Translucent doors like black and white eyes

Halls I’ve outgrown

clothes I’ve outworn

I’m now letting go

Of the rope that’s no longer tied to my core like ice clings to blood

I’m warmer, like fire without sting nor burn

Like melting blue flames which tingle my skull

After your calls,

relentless force,

positive feedback,

my sharp edges are leaning out

Leaning so far, I’m flying away

Up, up and away

We go ‘til we drop

From abyss to earth

From ocean to cloth

Yet we still remember a life, inside there.

Oh, how much to learn

Illusions to foster,

Love to forget…

We let the dead rest

We love to forget

We built a rosebud instead.

Plant a life, watch it grow

From soil to body,

plump, red and ripe,

Just roaming dark tunnels, just running from God

As generations from long long ago,

I believe in the feminine cycle within me,

The mothers before me…

That blew horns like devils

Read verses like curses

Sighed out profanities

And rushed to repel us

But despite tremors they held us

Through droughts they upheld us

They gave us their oxygen

And with mountains they fed us