Sky Burial

<p>Fade into stars As god machines. With our arms We will shape the world. With this breath We become the world.</p><p>In parts i lie, staring at the clouds, And listening to the vultures sing. The husk beneath this shroud Brings alms to fallow wings.</p><p>Vines spring from my blood, Wheat grows of my flesh and bone. The birds descend from above To lift my body from the stone.</p><p>A fair trade, my clay for a soul, So a pigeon thrives while i have passed. The mountain justly claims its toll To break the raptors fast.</p><p>Their shrieks soothe as siren calls, Their talons dancer s hands: Why angels don demon shawls, Is not for us to understand.</p><p>I glide in feathers embrace, Their beaks beckoning the frost, To fly past the fog, to rise into grace And join the loved ones we had lost.</p><p>The falcons roost upon the wind. I meditate until the morn, Absorbing times i ve loved and sinned. At light i wake, a being reborn.</p>