A Multitude Of Species
With desire stuck like fresh hope to my heart,
I wander through the impressions of beauty.
Habitual over-indulgence in intoxicating themes,
nature's screaming paintbrush existence,
splashing colours like some insane artistic shrug.
Sunrise cracks its bones of light with a lazy stroll,
shadows form and stretch across yards littered
with old toys, new growth peeking under their paint.
Life returns to sleep, nocturnal yawns, while daylight
rings the bells of the dawn's structured formation.
Fantastic futuristic explosions of eyes flutter in chaos,
dreams running in all directions for their cover,
they collide with the pillows and sheets; warmth cooling.
And a brand new section of time stutters into view,
brandishing swords of sharpened seconds, minutes, hours.
I sing, my mind a delight of senses in motion,
notes cascading down the mirror's cold look.
Shave my sleep clinging skin right into awake,
wet the promises of breath with mighty rivers.
Another sentence is to be released from its cell,
life in slow moments, quick, scatter yesterday.
Earth spinning like a top underneath burning stars,
the language of the universe spilling its music wildly,
we move, small drops of heartbeats furiously frantic.
The connections, large and small leading our awareness
through the confines of knowledge, we laugh out loud.
Alive, here and now, these eyes see the world's maze,
the flickers of shades in the corners of vision, visions.
Exotic, a multitude of species roaming the same soil,
inhaling the same air that washes this wonder; our home.
And I am taken aback, like every morning, surprised.
Wonder and confusion sliding like ice melting,
my mind, the battlefield of thoughts I watch, charge,
go through their salutes to the heaven's mystery.
Prayers of thanks, winks of smiling, generous time,
I am young, life is mine to mould into expectation.