“Birth”

Ivy labyrinth of light and lies

Translucent doors like black and white eyes

Halls I’ve outgrown

clothes I’ve outworn

I’m now letting go

Of the rope that’s no longer tied to my core like ice clings to blood

I’m warmer, like fire without sting nor burn

Like melting blue fumes which tingle my skull

After your calls

relentless force

positive feedback

my sharp edges are leaning out

Leaning so far I’m flying away

Up, up and away

We go ‘til we drop

From abyss to earth

From ocean to cloth

Yet we still remember a life

Oh, how much to learn

Illusions to foster…

Love to forget

Let the dead rest

We love to forget

Built a rosebud instead

Plant a life

watch it grow

From soil to body

plump, red and ripe

Roaming dark tunnels

Just running from God

As generations from long long ago

I believe in the feminine cycle within me

The mothers before me

That blew horns like devils

Read verses like curses

Sighed out profanities

And rushed to repel you

But despite tremors they held you

Through droughts they upheld you

They gave you their oxygen

And with mountains they fed you