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

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!