clear as gold

Born across the river from you

Born across the sea

Taking strides of wisdom
Faltering, shaking, ellipsis
Ongoing like the tides

The broken village of every footstep.

Fields of wheat

Of tall golden stalks swaying

Like a breeze of shining.

Laughter is every seed
That falls to it’s life
Revitalization.
Is this what we need

What we want

What we lead as our will
As our love

As our sacrifice.

Like secret messages kept in cherries

That go unblemished

Near the bottom of the day.