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Casting lots with ivory bones:
Acorns, flowers and old pine cones.
You left me here upon the sea
With only angel’s wings for company.

As I look back at that new year,
I cannot find a laugh nor tear:
All I see is washed out white
Lost in manes of mares that reign the night.

In the dark, I know, I was in pain
Thunder storms of summer rain,
Snow and wind upon the trees
Drowned out cries to God upon my knees.

In disbelief that these were wounds
Far too long, I hid the ruins:
For fear of being held as weak
Silence stole the words that strength would speak.

Of late I’ve wondered how to heal
All these ruins where once I kneeled,
All these stories left untold,
All these ivory bones I’ve come to hold.

The healer finds me by surprise,
Opens up my blinded eyes,
Gives me strength that I may see:
Yours were the hands that wounded me.

My ship returns to my homeland
Where once I prayed in desert sands.
There healing flows from hands I know:
Where love is deep, new seeds may grow.

I will choose the empty path
Marked by neither tear nor laugh:
Cast these bones away at sea
Your hands are gone and I am free.

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from When the Aster Blooms, released May 19, 2019

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