And so it came upon me,
to cast all things aside
and go and find the essence
of what I am inside
I took the form of fishes, and
swam the deepest sea
but all I found was darkness,
most of it in me
I dressed myself in feathers, and
arced across the sky
but the sparrows cautioned to me
that sadness cannot fly
so I took on claws and muscle, and
tunneled through the earth
and lost among the catacombs
felt all the pain of birth
crawling back to sunlight,
naked and unnamed
I whispered to the heart of things,
the beat of life untamed
I sang the song of ages, and
danced the clouds to weep
then exhausted and elated,
I gave myself to sleep.
