freedom – Page 3 – elancharan gunasekaran

nature instructs us in its ways: sing along when there is birdsong and listen when silence speaks

summer returns in fragments small pockets of sanguine heat that wells in the blood and hearts of the living

speak quietly and with fewer words for the woods understand and respect only action and reaction

as summer heralds its warmth spring has taken the liberty to remind the kind folk of this land that in due and absolute course winter’s reckoning would be upon us all

drink: from this cup of pleasure tainted by the sin of your pale lips

warm hands of summer: shaping cold bodies from wake to bed

last seen: the spring moon by the docks watching the waves roil by

enter from stage right and feel every fiber of your being crumble into dust and dirt

hair standing ovation: a birdsong unlike any other full of soul and love

exit stage: the body disintegrates gently pulled apart as curtains of mist