Surrender Spiral to Life & Death

The light comes on

and the light goes off

inside me there is a 

noticing 

The wind wings itself 

around the dancing ones 

outside 

inside me there is a noticing 

Voices echo and bounce 

off the tile downstairs, 

someone is crying          out

Memories come from somewhere 

and leave a heavy feeling 

inside me there is a noticing 

inside me there is sea

and i see you there 

below the reflection of the water 

or perhaps embedded in the mirror itself 

i see you, 

and my eyes feel your gaze 

my skin takes in the presence of your mouth 

and the moth laid open and bare 

on your exposed mother tongue 

is this an offering of an underworld kind? 

i whisper to the caverns of my mind 

a still and silent response 

i open my arms to receive 

you place the moth upon my chest and it slowly, 

comes back to perceive 

warm, uprising, rhythm of its 

colored wings, 

mingle with the beating of heart 

i am alive, 

and you have come here 

to remind me always

about the mystery of this