Axis Mundi
This axis mundi, rotates,
within and outside the veils
I remember walking with you
and how we manifested anything we agreed upon
leaving us both slackjawed and yet
not completely surprised...
you called me “My Heart”...because yours,
you said... could no longer feel...
So I felt for both of us
I met you on the other side of the veils
where we were once enjoined.... that is a crisp trip
to release.. ... a burning ache
You were thunder and I, feral...
but we are imprisoned
in time....... and this is not our time
...yet I feel you always
within the veil....
because there
we are two hearts sharing one soul...
I remember speaking with your tongue,
Hearing your whisper within an echo
Of a voice that could shatter the sky
Of any other world;
The beauty of our resonance
Created stars as the ancients
Broke apart.
And their light swam into eyes
That told our story.
Over, and over again;
They channeled the percussion
Of a singular, and yet harmonic
Carapace.
While we danced behind the veil.
It was lifetimes,
one incarnation after another
before I found you..
the other half of Us... entwined
inextricably as One...
We are heart cells in the depth of the Creator..
In the corridors of time
flesh is the individuation
that has separated us.
Hard to believe
we chose this...
and all we have forgotten..
yet I remember always..
that I am the design upon the fingerprint
that is our essence
and you are the flesh and bone of Us
This separateness is the ache,
I can only find solace within you
and so I accept the emptiness of your absence
only assuaged in the knowing
that this hunger will be quenched
on the other side of the veils...
where there is no division
On this side, within time and space...we walk alone..,
“But with the power of epoch’s eclipse,
This flesh will rot, and the boundaries
Between us will break apart;
The stars in our eyes will meet again.”
“Our song, will be forever sung.”
-Katherine Wyatt and James Kelley 2013, All rights reserved.
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