Aubrey

17

Reawakening

we were hopelessly lost with winter
we nearly suffocated with spring

summer was my salvation

life's lungs were filled with
new breath
hope grew with every awakening
blossom
my soul began to shed its skin of hibernation
& sprout
up through the cracks
of the
underground abyss
where we were held captive
by society's neglected toxins.

each night I breathe in more of the moon
& each day I swallow more of the sun
the grand remedy
to cure all creatures
that have found themselves broken
under the weight of the world's demons

midnight melodies of the season's
most harmonious insects leak in
through the windows
lulling me into chimerical dreams

awake
moving through the white heat
pregnant with elaborate thoughts
of the past
present
& future

oh sweet shade of trees
oh tender wind of seas
tickle me pink
as the lemonade sticky on tongues
of the children next door

dog days
nurturing me back into luminous existence

life ignites in me with no relenting
& I ask for no mercy
for nothing could be as good,
make me as whole.

alive
within & without
such magnificence
to be so alive

summer
was
my salvation