forgotten names

I’m hearing a call I never thought would come

not this life, not across the desert of a southern

forgotten land

I’m hearing a song whispering down rippling streams

in a jungle so deep two plants can change a life by

becoming one

I’m hearing a voice I thought would never come for me,

not this life, not piercing through a half moon blind into

a hidden sun

I’m hearing names I’d forgotten on tongues that once lived

like bright, exotic vines intertwined inside my own red mouth like

ancient anacondas

I’m staring into eyes so old they’ve lost their blackness,

history turned brown with the scent of living, love making cycles of

wet earth

Somewhere in the ocean is a jellyfish that lives forever

in shades of red and blue, like twin flames born in the same undying

amniotic cauldron

and every drop of rain in every dark, wet crevice of spherical rock

is following destiny from ravine to river to the open womb of ocean searching for

this immortal oneness

I’m following a call I thought would never come, not this life,

beating through the veins of trees, falling from full monsoon eyes into

streams of determination

aching for the taste of salt mingling in hydrogen and oxygen

flooding cells with a long awaited clue we are almost there, almost home,

almost no longer two

I’m flowing into the bloodstream of an earth I had to know,

let loose in currents I could never escape, making my way effortlessly, naturally,

back to you.

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