(don’t) Live

Run

What from? I would

Ask my dread

But instead it sent

To every nerve, every cell,

Blood like ice

Run from what?

run

until your lungs can carry air no longer

That was then,

be still

Now it tells,

very still

But why?

rest your back upon earth

Until when?

let her claim you again

But how?

let her vegetate and grow her

life upon you, crush

you with fear, and the weight of your sins

I see,

be still

be earth

I see,

until your lungs carry air no longer

Rebirth

Helplessly

My hollowness craves destruction

Crash and crumble, the rest of me

This feeble vainness I want gone

Crush this ribcage around

the nothingness it harbors

Then the carnage sweep away

Build me again on pristine innocence

Let me be reborn

Sprites

So brave the rise and peak

And find your way down

Stir my beauty and despair

Then love me for what I am

Novae

And if it were a home you seek

For the universes unfolding within

For the bursts spilling from

the space between your ribs

Then a home in these arms

you will find

Haiku: Moon Bones

 

Rivers of moonlight

Shining down, unraveling

At these very bones

Earth

 

Rightfully, I am She

In her everything

I am her rage

When she storms

But her calm

When she rains

When she trembles

I am her faults

And her lines

And her fault lines

I am lands that engulf

And that bloom

To give back

I am the brilliance in her skies

The colors and the black

Her yearning for the Sun

And the Moon’s for her

I was born

from one fistful

Of Earth