live alive

live alive
breathe in each day
of sorrow, sorry laughter
and shatter them
into an oblivion-
cast by the clocks; stopwatches
radiant cages for all mankind
and whisk away to fields of dawn
with love's tasting on your lips
taste the summer, golden
hear the whispered notes

live alive
in darkness creeping
over veiled fortress
of work and toil and sweat and tears
rising out of soil
feed the bird and set it free
sing to moving cloudkings
and fall away the ground

live alive
in hopeless bleeding
in loss of memory
old age, a torment to lovely time
a knife to all achieved
throw off the binds
of careful saving, live in reckless youth
the sun still shining, eyes still open
upon the fading valleys