- Pearl
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