Panther spirit galvanized
Protection for the self startled
Out from the shell glowing black orb
Circling around claws out
Careful not to oversleep
Every reordering of words
As they reach the surface
Teach and nurture us
How to breathe
Learning how to walk again
On the same two feet
We’ve been standing with now four
Accounting days, months and centuries
Funny they should be so capable
Yet somehow disagree
The memory gap between
An imprint unforeseen by
Many who have never been
Outside of what was once before
For where they’ve lived till then
Is inside of what’s been cultivated
So two steps outside restored
Both dogs out the door
No more one foot in and one foot out
No need to hold onto the other
We’re not remembering in this
Moment it’s just learning
How to walk again
Familiar motions in a different way
Inner strength and the panther is
Invited with no cage
To guide to smell to lead astray
From the pattern of the past ingrained
Ingredients to be stirred in ways
We’ve yet cooked up to live; to crave
With all the recipes and notes
All the structures confidently
Confirming a free configuration
Of discovery and exposure
How to grab hold of the thing
We were always fighting for
But in the wake took time to heal
And could not rationalize
A halfway mark was tread
New beginnings toward the homestead
In the same satellite that was
Launched five decades ago
Regeneration of the womb
Outside the soul
© GÄ
Poétique 