Awaken and Breathe

Your body is so new,

Where did you find it?

How did you find this place?

I can taste your words and hear your sounds

Opening the window to the day

Bold shadows stretch you across the room

Sparrow light and wing movement

Dark flash and grey cloud that holds you

Awaken and breathe

Alive on fire

Caress the morning

Air that glides around you as we, walking

Touch

Crisp air tightly wrapped ‘round trees

Crisp air still hears you

Seeing sunlight for the first time

Air still bringing rain

And afternoons still remaining in time

To see

Rain

To feel

Air

That is

Moist

Revealing

As your bold shadow

Stretched across the room

And new body

Uncharted territory

Virgin coastline

Where I stand,

A pioneer before exploration.

-Kevin Slick