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Returning Through Time...
Times change...
I'm here at the airport
Making my baggage claim...
Gathering up what's left
After airlines, and glad hands,
And kamikaze pilots
Have tore into my treasures
Like packs of wild dogs...
If I have one thing left
It is how I can feel
And see over mountains
To the place where birds soar...
I've been witness to burnings
That were well out of hand...
Where the fields were scorched,
And the pines wouldn't stand...
To the dust I returned
With new hope sprouts would grow...
And I dreamed of your love
Underneath moss and loam...
If I have one thing left
It is how I still feel
And see over mountains
To the place where birds soar...
Take my hand and we'll wander
Until we fall down
While the days lay beside us
Like leaves from a tree...
Yes the times they may change,
But our love is profound,
And it pours out like sap
Filling cracks in the street...
And we mustn't forget,
Though the cold that breaks rocks,
And the wind batters frames
Scattering building blocks...
We mustn't forget how to hold out
And crave
Every mystical moment...
Every incoming wave
In this ocean of feeling,
The vast sprawling now...
We inherit raw light...
Every inch we allow...
1/31/24
Bunny Villaire
Edit #2
Atoms of Love
We know that atoms exist
Because science tells us so,
And science ought to know
Because it gave us the smartphone,
The golden apple of technology!
But we differ from a smartphone,
Don't we?
We are much, much more,
Aren't we?
Not when it comes to atoms,
You see!
We share the same pedigree.
The difference is biology,
Which a long, long time ago
Metamorphosed stardust into atoms of love,
Which became you and me.
Such wonderful alchemy!
Stardust is the container
For the flame of life.
I am a sea of emotions,
Welling and subsiding
Like the tides in the oceans.
Flame lets me know I’m alive!