Surrender

Surrender with your palms

every soul is a thread that floats through everything

where I live now I can find the rhythm to lift my hand

place it on this word

death should not be something I want

but something that never leaves the openness

between trees this everything falls apart every veil around you sinks light

all this is to keep from sliding into darkness

the last ones are with us rows of bodies and their wings

someone searches for the one the last one to remember this

asks to show us the golden how it went before

we know and we don’t know

I imagine the always

we hummed waited no one came to visit

what are we without longing

a pyramid of loss black sienna and room

gods begin in a sleep swing behind an ocean

have you ever been the spirit of all that hurts

have you endured more than all the feelings we can name

I am blown open like I’m something that it loves

returning to the sky gates of our dreams

I will be the mirror moving the ether

the flower

the ear warm

the wild

I will be here to human your coffin