Audio Version | Backing music: Kyndir by Gabríel Ólafs
Long ago
I threw my heart
Into the ocean
Then decades later
Found it floating
Among the stars

Woke
To find beauty
And devastation
Sleeping side by side
In a bed of white roses

Cried
Til the tears dissolved
Every fibre of wood
In the ring fences
Containing my joy

Watched
Someone destroy
The only soul
They ever really
Cared to love

Hoped
For a place
Where hate
Could dance
All night
With love
Til it surrendered
Its form
And became the sun

Played
Piano songs
Atop mountains
Til creatures whose
Voices had never been heard
Wandered out of forests
And valleys
Singing

Found
My sadness
Sitting quietly
Bathed in sunlight
Forever knowing
It will never be alone

Audio version | Backing music: Sea of Love by Austin Farwell
There’s a column inside of us
So still and calm
You can hear a single drop fall
On the surface of the ocean

So quiet and peaceful
That cicadas lower their hum
In thoughtful reverence
A place where you can hear the sky think
And feel the earth turn

It's somewhere that torment goes
To bathe for a million years
And return as a bird of paradise

A space where fireflies sing
Of long lost lovers
And times when light was not a thing
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Where trees sway in the breeze
And time is a timeless quality
Not a construct of scarcity

All our columns are connected
Invisibly by a web of breath
Like a sea of wind chimes
Playing a silent symphony to the stars

You can hear them playing
Only when you stop trying to listen
Feel them
Only when you stop trying to feel

Last night, mine visited
As a black swan that swam
Beside me
Beneath the golden moonlight
Of a nascent night sky

Then woke me
In the early morning
As its soft notes
Played an ancient tune
That gently strummed my ribs
Like the strings of an angel’s harp
It said....

“I am the space
That caught your fall
The pit you thought was your prison
I made your tunnel of light
Back to a life that wanted you

I am the other
You never had
To hold you
The love
You never thought
You deserved
The heart
That kept on beating
When it should have gone flat

I am the emptiness
The stillness
The dreaming
That kept you here
The trees that let you breathe
I am the quiet moonlight that strokes
Your face each night without you ever knowing
The life that eternally calls your name
With every sunrise roll call
Because the universe meant you to be here

I am love
And you are me."