Two decades ago, I was a musician and I wrote this song. It has been my friend’s favourite for ten years and she asked me the other day to send her the lyrics. So I dug them up, and discovered I’d written a rather literal prophecy for my life.
As it happens, I’ve gone around the world since this song and am back in the place where I was when I wrote it. You could say back where I started. Which makes the song happy. It’s a sucker for a good full-circle. ☀️🌊🏝💦🌬
Today, giant snow flakes have moved in with the wind outside my window. and I live with, as well as under, three layers of velvety blanket.
The Alchemist Erin Clark
I asked him to take me
by some other way
than through my intellect
reveal to me why life
has a way of
making you burn for it
he said we need the fire to perfect
we are his gold things
he is an alchemist
in a past life when i lived with the sun.
after the sun, I became the sea
every restless wave and violent tide
betrayed a depth I’d rather hide
eventually the smashing smoothed
and the vastness
meditated me
and now I crave
the penetrating
once my constraints had lifted me
the praise was ravishing
I washed myself onto the shore
and the sand there gave me
this form
I lay in my mother’s cool grasses
I learned about how time passes
she whispered into me
a rolling pulse
her affection shatters
as it reflects
I was breathless
and beating
when I had flesh
one day the air was like a bath
it tasted like green
and when I breathed
it stuck to my teeth
I asked if it knew about the melting
all the light was dull
like a thumb had smudged all the day’s ink
and the heat was so heavy
I could feel it remembering me
air offered to carry me around
that’s when I moved in with the wind
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