A Hummingbird's Trail

A Hummingbird’s Trail

1.  Yes!

In the great YES of life,
sorrow comes and stays
deep-rooted
to the virgin earth

with
beseeching hands to the empty sky
sorrow bears the tender-most
purple-angry scars of living flesh,

binds the wings
and blindfolds
the heart,

rips and tears, breaks
the Lover
into 10000 million waves
cast upon the sea...

then comes the dawn,
joy remains to be lived.

2.  Zig-Zagged

I thought I saw your brain
flying around the Nazca lines,
we zigzagged
we intersected
we crossed over,
soon tired out
we rested in the temple of Pachacamac,
a new world
was emerging
between the day of the dawn
and the night of the dead.

3.  She

She stepped into the shower

just before daybreak, relishing the

warm water pounding sensuously on her skin,

lifting her face to the sunflowers,

she let 1000 generations of her ancestors

wash away the sins of the world,

for she was the last one.

In another life, they were Gods, she,

the only bearer of

the legacy of eternal fire,

he was a black-eyed priest then, white-robed,

jealous with the flesh of words he guarded

but it was written that they should fall in love

and so they did,

for the eternal fire is the crucible of love's

holy desire...

and so it was in her blood,

the cure for contagion,

she let him bleed her until he had his fill,

and slowly he would face the dawn,

slowly he would live once again.