A Poem a Day (646): NaPoWriMo 17 - Ephedra (inspired by a song of the same name)

 
Day 17 
 
Prompt: we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that is inspired by a piece of music, and that shares its title with that piece of music. www.napowrimo.net
 

Ephedra (inspired by a song of the same name)
 
Life opening. A window rising to the soul.
Moon dust recalls a lost night’s shade,
aimless wanders in moods of endless dark.
Motion turning. How it always turns.
 
Bric-a-brac, a walk back, a curve in this time,
the only one, and we can never be forever,
this trip back, this screwing with a reality done.
I am me, and you are you. We can never meld.
 
Notes in streams lift light, fulfilling white energy,
bubbles cross a distant spray. Soft surf lifts so
this shine will never ebb. The echo of a return.
We are one, but never were one. We are two.
 
You record a lyric and dream on its company,
rhythm sweet, the way it moves, its breeze,
as though we sail on a never-shrinking sea,
live inside colour chords, the curve of the true.
 
This hard shell, heartbroken, dug out of sand,
smooth arch of the blessed, we listen in,
content as if this wide world moves in tune,
only for our audience, only for us. Just we.
 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, April 17, 2024