If you are like the others
Inside there is a storm of
Winds and waves
Culminating into
Dancing electricity on skin
A cyclone of desire.
You’ll want to follow
The howl in your ears
And you’ll have mastered
Ignoring it.
L'appel du vide
I know you want
To be at the center.
For it to swallow you whole.
Uproot you. Take you away
To a land of Dreams.
Where you are fifteen again
Grass between your toes and
Unbound
Run! Run through the dandelion fields
And into the Sun.
It will not hurt to burn for
Your radiance rivals flame
This is who you are:
A magnificent flash of light
Bloodless and blinding--
All the years keeping it
Caged behind ribs. The time’s come
Follow the wailing winds!
You cannot be bound to mortality.
I have seen what you can be
In the eye of the storm you are free.