THE ELEMENTS


(for Andrew)

Listen:

Your Mind of Air
Is a Whirlwind
Lifting many things
Into the spiral dance.

Your Heart of Fire
Is a Rose
With flaming petals
That are never consumed.

Your Skin of Water
Is a still pond
Waiting to ripple
At the touch of a trembling hand.

Your Body of Earth
Is the Beloved of Death
And one day soon
You will lie down together
Embrace and enter one another
To make all these elements anew.

– Charles Kruger

Posted: Fri - November 1, 2002 at 06:43 PM          


©