To Read the Sands
Does’t within that sweetest smile
Stained not nor yet battered
By waking to chill inheritance
As weeks tumbling into years
Away run from that easiest mile
While you see me unclothed
It is slowly that you kill us
Or dream it so by taking
Leave of tethers smiles tied
When hours stumbling into days
Away run what we remember
As dying we forget us
Are we all the same, then
Why do happy images fade
When quick did a quiet fury
Set fire to the laughter
Now alight again echoing
Through this newest vessel
We’ve called my son
Will you cleave apart, my son
And join them beyond, leaving
This barren shore I’ve accreted
When moments crumbling into minutes
See you barely burn to rise
Upward toward the twinkling light
And will I ever follow
The scent my soul detected
Free in foremost moments
Unconsciously made conscious
As it smolders ‘neath a flesh
Made thick through dumb persisting
While I toil on, building vainly
Wondering fruitless will these piles prove
When the beaches you might dance
Along sit beside another ocean
Bounding some faintly known horizon
Where I never learn to swim
Lo my boy, forgive me
Forgive me when you pause, digging
Forgive me my trespasses
These dunes my momentary cravings
As years drifting into lifetimes
Are made for but the waves
And when you dance upon shores
That you have helped to make
Unending waves rendering your castles
Mere layers of twinkling fragments
May you see like starlight filling
Up the blackness, bittersweet
This galaxy you call your own
Should you dare to read the sands.
Does’t within that sweetest smile
Stained not nor yet battered
By waking to chill inheritance
As weeks tumbling into years
Away run from that easiest mile
While you see me unclothed
It is slowly that you kill us
Or dream it so by taking
Leave of tethers smiles tied
When hours stumbling into days
Away run what we remember
As dying we forget us
Are we all the same, then
Why do happy images fade
When quick did a quiet fury
Set fire to the laughter
Now alight again echoing
Through this newest vessel
We’ve called my son
Will you cleave apart, my son
And join them beyond, leaving
This barren shore I’ve accreted
When moments crumbling into minutes
See you barely burn to rise
Upward toward the twinkling light
And will I ever follow
The scent my soul detected
Free in foremost moments
Unconsciously made conscious
As it smolders ‘neath a flesh
Made thick through dumb persisting
While I toil on, building vainly
Wondering fruitless will these piles prove
When the beaches you might dance
Along sit beside another ocean
Bounding some faintly known horizon
Where I never learn to swim
Lo my boy, forgive me
Forgive me when you pause, digging
Forgive me my trespasses
These dunes my momentary cravings
As years drifting into lifetimes
Are made for but the waves
And when you dance upon shores
That you have helped to make
Unending waves rendering your castles
Mere layers of twinkling fragments
May you see like starlight filling
Up the blackness, bittersweet
This galaxy you call your own
Should you dare to read the sands.
