I am Expanding.
I am spreading out,
a conscious sprout,
smoothing and sanding.I am Overtaking.
I am planting roots
for beasts and brutes,
bending and breaking.I am Receiving.
I am taking it in,
the kindness, the sin,
the coming and leaving.
where are today’s dragons?
we used to breathe fire into our imaginations,
set sail on ships carved like our nightmares.heed me, unyielding beast! come down
and embolden my standard. emblazon my house!burn my fears.
what idols do I believe in? what wrought stone,
what hewn wood, can stir my courage now?
I lie asunder
heaped in my own
lightsand you
tenderly
unmake melayer by layer.
hi there, you
whisper to the pieces,
handing them back
to meto put together
again.