Alas

Earthen wares surround you and you feel them radiate.
You hear a dull tone ringing and it reminds you of a bell
On a bus you took across a foreign town.
With your ears wrapping around foreign tongues
With your hands clapping coast to coast,
Continent to continent -
Without a tug but a twist -
The hips bore the succulent fruit
Out from the rain and seasons
After the nights and mornings
The dew that drips to the dirt
Will nourish a seed
Next to the spot where the legs of a ladybug
Dimple a puddle of teardops
And your nose crinkles,
You smell a rose, a vine, a tree, an orchard
A landscape dotted with oases and festivals -
A castle laughing a bedrock stone,
An ocean swallowing up a sea,
An eagle flying backwards,
A world laughing at everything like me.

But I, I found an eye as big as the sky!
I found a microscope to see the moment before our future.
I found a telescope to trace our past.
I put a stethoscope to my heart,
I heard a beat that could not last.