"Ante Meridian"

5:30 Ante Meridian


Before everyone wakes

I am here

Waiting for the sun to rise

And all is silent.

The world is as cold

As a body entombed

The morning is as dark

As a corpse is cold.

Everyone is sleeping

But me,

And I am waiting for light

To kiss the world awake.


This is the space

In which Creation began

Before the breath of morning

Became the first day

The Flux and the Ether

Of the time before Time.

It is strange and empty

To be here alone

Strange and silent.


12/29/03

"Fixation"

Fixation


I have chosen you

To be my Polaris

Although I know

Nothing about the heavens

Guide me.

Even on the wrong path

You show my way

I’ll feel sure

And confident

And hopeful

Even as I become

More and more lost.


12/29/03