WHEN A HAND CLOSES
when a hand closes
a scar appears
calling out for
the one who knows
to remember
but it forgets
and a storm is formed
then the wind scatters
a hurting world
across the skin
it forgets
and dreams a confusion
where a man mistakes
the art of living with
an act of killing,
then as war breaks out
it collapses down
with exhaustion
slowly beginning
to remember
it hears again
the voice of the loved one
echoing across
the shared gulf
of co-creation
it remembers
a leap of faith
across a chasm
of ever-changing
vastness
and it remembers
the quiet moment
after the eclipse
when a hand opens
to reveal the gift