Branches

A light, traveler through timelessness and space

Flew to a mortal as a resting place.

Brightness clouded mind

And filled the skin with color

And as the eyes grew dim with sleep

The shadows taking over

Did vibrance grow, the past and future

Channeled in one moment

A life lived in the heart

An animals’ atonement

Souls escape, the mind release

With wings that flutter on

A grave for wanton nourishment,

A tree to rest upon

Fire consumes all life that lives

And ere the shadows care

Fragile wings that flourish

Join the dance eternal there