Two star signs, two ruled by The moon and sun All the other signs are planets They are the exception The royal luminaries Glowing in their heaven
Two signs formed side by side In the vastness A sparkling duality amidst the Ever orbiting constellations
Together here, if nowhere else In the maps, in the blue The moon and sun Exist forever in twilight In that narrow stretch of time Where day and night softly meet
You say goodnight to me As though singing a song Against my earlobe Whispering a melodic prayer Beating against my eardrum The rhythm of your words A steady lullaby kiss Melting on my lips as you Fade with me into a dream
Let the wind take it Dissolve into the air The remnants of our Horrible affair
Let the storms have it And with force blown away So I won't think of You for one more day
Where do moths live in winter? Where do wild chickens go? I see them out now that it's spring But how did they brave the snow?
How do frogs slow their bodies To sleep within the ice? Who else shelters in the walls With the warm and cozy mice?
I wonder if the fish feel cold When all the lakes freeze over Now I welcome back the friends I haven't seen since last October
Though the finches and the foxes Have been here all year long I just saw the first chipmunk Since all of them had gone
How do rabbits breathe In all the ground they are under? I guess that I could look it up But it's more fun to wonder
I'm both a brother And a sister A chameleon A shapeshifter I was the man I thought you wanted And woman again When you missed her
I've been handsome I've been gorgeous And being both Has been euphoric I've been everything All at once I am both malleable And formless
My voice is soft Fluid and cozy My body smooth And warm and homey When I speak to you I hope you hear My soul is steady And you know me
Even the wildest Of creatures Still long to be Held tightly Sometimes, If only for a Moment Even the freest Of beings Still long to be Kept in Someone's heart
I shut you out Because you saw the parts of me That were broken And ugly And I thought you would leave
So instead I loved people Who shut their eyes And stayed Always hoping I would change Something permanent in me
Life flows freely through cold rivers While I sit in my stagnant pond I need to be cleansed Before the algae covers me completely
We could have been green together Further down the river We could have been blue too The frogs are leaping as I stretch my legs
Little spider by the window Resting in the shade I like your coloring I like the web you made
You're hanging upside down In your messy little nest I wonder if you're hungry Or eating tiny pests
I don't know where you came from You suddenly appeared I hope you stay a while I like that you are here
We used to be birds In a cage together When we thought We wanted to live there
Now we soar high In different weather Spreading wings In the same open air
I've seen you in clouds I'll see you forever I flew to the heavens You flew everywhere
Now my eyes watch moths And spiders, crickets in the night, Infinity's glowing diamonds, The darkest skies alight.
I keep company in blades of grass That were browned by the sun. An eternity of passions passed, If asked, I'll say it's done.
Belong do I to the moon And what it does to all the sea. It cycles through all I have left, We're bound, the moon and me.
"I can be someone's and still be my own." -- Shel SilversteinSide blog: @a-sign-of-fire
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