So it begins:
Eyes creep open
Possibilities explode before them like fireworks
Simple colour and light, meaningless.
From this point we never stop. Jump
Between birthdays collecting small circles of memory in a tiny palm
Age flips its wings
A change is commanded
Tapping feet and years wished floated away on a burbling stream of laughter
Hair grows and is carved in slits
Changing minds reach to the sky in hunger for the new
Until, ready, they leave the clouds shattered beneath them.
Grazed hearts heal without comfort’s bubble
hands-first, we embrace

Fingerprints engrave our minds, gifts from the others,
Until we may lay ourselves inside a dream’s mould,
They pile in thin layers.
Eyes crinkle
Hair shrinks
Children bloom like soft fireworks
Light dims
Sparks ignite as the sun watches and the moon ticks
Let them sail their own sea in a boat of paper
As you rest on the shore amongst the ceaseless breakers
Slow sighs wave as they pass you by

Stillness, ripples smoothed by the folds of your palm
Let love’s sentiment sing you to sleep
The heart’s ancient layers, gracefully crumble
Drift a second-
Sink below the surface,
Darkness’s final consumption
There is no noise
It is over. It has just begun.