A stem grows to hold the cherry one day

The cherry grows the natural follower and the first comer breaks

Both fall, fall the mother and the child

The grass catches the bruises and the tears from the night

Dewy and new pink eyes search desperately for sunrise

Shoot the sky on your back

The kaleidoscope sky clicks the stars into place

The gears in my mind will take forever to see the present

I remember what you said I remember what you said before you said it

Has happened before the stars and the dew curling stems

The growing the present growing making a dent in rational dissonance

How gentle the drug I have so far to fall

Falls the child cherry blossom pink eye-lidded fawn

Mother you’ll discover before I’ve time to recover

Dammit! You’ll cry!

No, no I’ll lie.

Simply lie here while the stars shift heaven around

Fingers white with moonlight caress the heartbeat of the ground

Let me love you both. Let me run from and be the hunter of all I learned before

I shake my bough I shake it hard I write your lessons from my bones

And when I fall mother stem

Know I eventually return to you

A tree of my own.