JUBILANT FATHER
His face is like a sun, warms the moon beside him.
She´s grown full; tonight begins the waning.
The tide pulls through her very bones,
her form aches as each wave crests.
The earth pulse, heavy, blood warm within her
Beats new chords, old sun god chants.
"You are the first mother and the last,
all spring flesh has traveled through you."
Aztec plumed and gold beaded,
your priest kneels at the holy alter,
gathers each salt pearl shed, nectar for his sacrament.
You are the temple,
we pilgrims swept through the gates,
bent figures know the scent and petals of your presence,
spread our arms to harvest blossoms,
and your priest, sun struck, kneels beside you.
For something that brings so much happiness How is it even possible to bring so much pain in absence? For something that gives so much hope and wonder How is it even possible to take so much self and future?
For you, my little sister, made this family They were happy with you Their little girl Not as happy as they are with us Their little boys
You brought happiness foreign to this household To this family Happiness so foreign that when extracted as you were Leaves us at loss and without understanding So why did you leave us?
Why did you leave when you knew what you meant to us? Why did He take you? Did He not know what you were to us? Did He not know that we needed you? That they needed you? That I needed you?
When you entered into our lives it was as though everything might be okay He stopped drinking it all away, our lives, our money, our happiness. She stopped crying and yelling and waiting They stopped looking down on us as though we were less Everything was good Everyone was happy This is not so anymore
Now that you have left us he is back to his old ways She no longer smiles, no longer laughs, no longer feels No matter our efforts to make her happy For without you she is unable.you were her happiness They look at us, as they did before, as the poor and the neglected and ful. Nothing is as it was Nothing will ever be as it was You are our happiness You are our hope You are our future You are our love You embodied our laughs, our smiles, our joy. You were our life.
