Star Child and the Ape of Venus

Soundware rustles the tree of being Sending signals through the spine Ground water morphs into electronic light Recyled moonlight spreads through sinews Now we stand After so many years coursing Evolving, twisting, bending Our canopy sprawls over the horizon Giving food for critters and bees In the starry night, apes are calling They have rewired the trees To fit their needs Now well storied in a colony Receiving manhood and tribal blessing Venus takes shape beyond the sun She has seen the centuries pass With gifted movement she knows Where the dark cedar grows Now and forever in the bulk of the sun She is patient and luminous Stroking ape child and his striving ways She wants to hear What protection to make For the new generation fervently awake Another year passes Mercury spreads his stolen wings Sending off a messenger from the sky To teach the prose of highway transit Lamping a torch to new codes of the road And revealing hidden messages that pounce in the night One more month Love is finalized Truth now begins