If these are the poems you will write,
then write them!…write them and descend
into
them.
Lift your head above their peaks.
If these are the songs you will sing,
then sing them!…sing them with mouth agape,
with all songs ever sung,
a universal music.
If these are the tunes you choose to play,
strum with ardent mind
voracious through death.
Teach the world your melody.
Are these your steps?
Then stride over untouched mountains
and let us see your path.
If these are the poems you will write,
write them!—your words
are indelible soil—
then raise your body satisfied.
