Communing with Elementals
(Baptism)
Mirrored candlelight licks
at the shore of luminescent abdomen,
jewels slip from my fingertips
drip – drip – drip
sending ripples of Undine-song
to caress my glistening body
While in the distance Grandfather time chimes an octameter …
Blake can look at a knot in the ceiling
until he screams.
I know what he means …
Will it extinguish me, this invader
that sits
and waits
it’s chance?
Shhh
Let the Undines soothe it.
Let the Salamanders enchant you
with their dance.
Shhh …
I rise upward
Mist rises from my nakedness
My body encrusted with the jewels
glitters
a dragonfly perched on my shoulder
The Undines kiss me farewell
as they trickle away
and he says:
“Let me whisper a secret to you
(in my sleepy haze, your sleepy haze):
Wonder not who, wonder not why
wonder not about the future,
or about dreams,
or about him.
Wonder not.”
and the Salamanders flicker
and die.
copyright 2008, me. And all of that.
Written this weekend, while on a necessary and peaceful ‘retreat’. It still needs a lot of work, to my mind.
The second last stanza was from a poem written for me by a close friend, whom I thank from the bottom of my heart, once again.
Simply … I took a bath 🙂 And composed this while in there. Figure it out lol.