You egged me on
asking to race for a modest amount of wealth
me in my old truck
and you in your sporty younger self
she placed a mark
to know where we should start and find an end
a month on the moon races like
a day with you, dangerous old friend
can you with everything you have and less energy
bring more of you than when you had a sunburst will to give?
is your love deeper than you were stronger
all those years before?
could you finish this distance
in a way that would fill a greater lore?
I sat with her rocking in a tree
the moon above and below me
I asked of her greater things
of auras eclipses and phase rings
I asked of the scars coating her face
I asked if she dreamed of orbit 'round a greater place
I asked if the waters within me
were sopped up and jostled like a hidden sea
She said she would only speak of one
before she turned to a mirror sun
"The star shines on me in every way
An interstellar interrogation
An examination array
It asks if I am hurt or whole
but I am somewhere between
a strong and wounded soul in my gleam
To hide my scars is impossible
bury my perpetual marks? unthinkable
So I wear these craters like robes, you see
they never diminish the light I give
Every strike and every blow
beams the bending light like a bow
to new directions, new possibilities
you feel it in the cavern of antiquity
that is why I will always sway
so you love every side of me"
