Untold Worlds

We all come in naked, alone Kicking our cherub feet Eyes taking it all in We seem to fall so far from heaven Like solitary stars One by one As we grow up into our own fledgling orbits. Life lived like paupers Straining for food, and liberty Each of us limited by aloofness, Chains we face, every direction Innocence fled farther away As the heavens nightly blaze In their eternal dance, Invisible beyond self-enclosing walls. We leave all alone Still naked beneath the sheets Eyes frozen in their last frame We hope to be arriving soon at heaven's door Like smoking incense must go upward But nobody can make us any promises From the chaos here. Every man, on his own trajectory Each his own hard-bitten tragedy Nothing promised, nothing gained Till we circle untold worlds, again. July 31 2010 written to Requiem for a Tower/Escala