FATHOMLESS

Fathomless Gratitude
     for the beauty of this world
For this ache in my heart
Which is tearing me open
Like a calf, cut in half
Offering my fertile blood
     to the barren earth
To this endless void
     of death and birth

Drunk on pain... pleasure
I sow the wild seeds
     of joy's exuberance
Dance in the fields
     of life's aching tenderness

Cut me to pieces
     and scatter me...
To the four winds
To the seven sacred cities
To the middle earth
And fallen sky

Let me live as I die!

© 2002, Ariana Saraha