Eshtine

poem: gemini

A birthday poem for Pollux.

Who you are
As you are
Yourself
No one else
You
A song sung
By your eyes on the world
Your gift of everything, anything
Delicate, crude, secret, loud
Of strange fascination
Or country-wise--
You are more that this
Beyond what I may shout.

Accept this thanks, any thanks
Accept
The curious shape days take
And
Sudden spilling darkness
And then
And then sun
Bursting in on cobwebbed corners
Lighting your changing face.

I'd give you--
Oh, what I'd give--
Ask it of all else
Ask it of the world
And then listen--
The answer will murmur
But the din,
Your cruel intruder,
Steals words spoken
By unfamiliar tongues.

Only listen.
Know much waits unheard, unseen
Tug at the hidden
Pull it to view.
We will guard
We will pledge
Our hands to grasp yours--
If you ask--
We will pay heed
To tears
Triumph
Music
Silence
And remind you
You have
A human inheritance.

You have
Eyes in the past
Eyes in new distance
Eyes in this moment
The song of this instant
You as you are
No one else
You.

Posted by eshtine at June 18, 2003 08:28 AM