Monday, September 14, 2015

Bellow Unto the Midnight Stars


Bellow Unto the Midnight Stars


Bellow out unto the earth
      And echoing skies:
A sorrow song for
The last child in the woods,
The last dragonfly, the lightening bugs blinking
out one final time into a withering night.


Born into a dying world
                        with
Fierce quiet eyes of knowing,
Iron beams of light hold frame from within:

Children of Indigo.

They hear the whispers of leaves and grass,
See the meticulous renderings of red ants through rough bark.
The aching heartbeat thumping the planet’s core
Pulsates upwards through their feet.

     When ridges shift within, they are not shaken. 

Memory and knowing converge.
The lashing storms over plains and crumbling of mountains into sea
            Carve the new topography into their DNA.


Their parents and guides--
We of the bolting ash and rust dusted 
                Generation of Industry--
Rebirth may not be for us.
Our flames extinguish at the 7th Frontier,
The Great Turning.

For us it may only be to love, to nourish, to watch in awe
This next generation
             As they step out onto the edge of a world 
                                                            about to be transformed.





===============  8th September 2015, in flight from Bangkok to Tokyo



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