The Call

Frozen

Trembling at the weight of this

Molten doorway

Initiate me

I can hold back no longer

This magnet pulling me forward by my hair

I fall into the abyss

I’ve seen this one before

A mountain sunrise accompanied by the Ave

This time directed at me

Do I dare become the sunrise?

There’s no mistaking where this will take me

A volcano of joy erupts in belly

I was made for this moment

This choice

It’s time to become

Dissolve

And fall together

This eternal spark is ready

To join the only flame

It Begins

The mud thickens

But my strength is thicker

Years of wandering this wild

Have built undercurrents in me

That cannot be undone

I can’t be stopped now

Not even by myself

Slowly now I cut apart the barbed wire

My hands are safe and skilled

But that doesn’t stop the slow

Steady

Trickle

Of blood down my waist

It can wait

Eyes to the stars

The Northern winks

The moon shimmies in place

Creation silently shouts it’s joy

For my trust

The road is long indeed

But the fire inside burns hot

And easy

She’s got my back this time

Forget burning bridges

I burned the whole city

Nothing left to turn back for

My joy fills up this moonlight desert

Who knew the victory of utter defeat could feel so wide?

That all the right failures could bring unfailing peace?

Every rock echos back my praise

The cacti and I rejoice in our resilience

The barrenness and I swell our voices together

That nothing could ever satisfy

But the emptying