Gliding through an untamed biosphere 

Uncontrollable and powerful

Yet graceful and head-turning 

Doesn’t answer to anyone 

Sometimes crests and sometimes falls

A home to indescribable beauty below its ever-changing surface 

Incandescent green 

Indigo 

Maybe a dark purple

Sometimes I wish I was the sea

Undefinable and free

Drifting towards and away from the shores of reality 

– m.d. 

Give what’s left of me away

To children

And old men that wait to die.

 

And if you need to cry,

Cry for your brother

Walking the street beside you.

And when you need me,

Put your arms

Around anyone

And give them

What you need to give to me.

 

I want to leave you something,

Something better

Than words

Or sounds.

 

Look for me

In the people I’ve known

Or loved,

And if you cannot give me away,

At least let me live on in your eyes

And not your mind.

 

You can love me most

By letting

Hands touch hands,

By letting bodies touch bodies,

And by letting go

Of children

That need to be free.

 

Love doesn’t die,

People do.

So, when all that’s left of me

Is love,

Give me away. 

-E.O.