Rise, welcome to Earth.

I am your guide son, Father.

Follow and grow up.

Your growth is stable.

Soon, puberty comes my son.

Walk, talk and explore.

Knowing defiance.

Almost to manhood my son.

Speaking of life lessons.

Learned experienced.

You are a good man my son.

Family wife kids.

They are blessings.

I'm no longer there my son.

An elder will pass.

An ember wakens,

Breathing in the air of dreams,

Hope sparking the mind,

Consuming the wick,

An inferno of daring,

To know everything,

Yet knowing nothing,

And being alight with it,

Brightened, enlightened,

Amassing of coal,

Humdrum days of searing aches,

A melting of cogs,

Observing the glows,

Young flickers spare a glance to

Ashes in a jar.

1. Space

Burning cold glitters,

Need and function coalesce--

Stardust into flesh.

2. Air

Formless and heavy,

Effort to lift and push out,

Lungs have to practice.

3. Fire

Thought streaking across

Clouds of concept in bright heat--

Ragged, storming self.

4. Water

Mind and body move,

Skirt obstacles, rush onward,

Swim in liquid time.

5. Earth

Cupped humanity,

In history's dusty hands,

Dying until death.