Four Elements

AIR An ocean I’m called, going to and fro In the twin pipe organs that breathe and blow I enliven all hearts From the very first start The first to come and the last to go. FIRE Food is the fire at my hearth Delivered through blood before birth Life on it depends To live you must expend The price of living on earth. EARTH The thick repository of all that is Growing things must feel my kiss Whether volcanoes spew me Or earthquakes chew me Always beneath I exist. WATER I float nine months in loves briny ocean So gently rocked by each tiny motion Fresh riptides of blood My whole being flood The painful entrance inspires devotion. Four elements compose the whole Each one plays it's very own role But the deepest part fills When the first breath instills The self’s own select living Soul.