Poetry - Cosmic Dance

You have ignored me or stared at me for four hundred years as I imperceptibly became worn to a smoothness by the centuries of wind and rain, and the letters carved on my surface became illegible imprints on my stony essence. But you still know with the knowing of your kind that the remains of one like you lies beneath my weathered form unmoving, yet moved by time. And I know with the knowing of my kind that one day when all memory of you will have faded I will be worn so th

Blood - particles of stars and earth and creatures from another time - rises within us in our own chemistry rises to stiffen or moisten rises to raise us briefly to our origins rises to hold and regenerate the primordial atoms rises like the tides governed by the moon and stars and finally ebbs in our melted forms giving back to the earth the borrowed elements.