'Floating Dawn', or 'The Farthest Star Wills It'

You are iris and lilac growing together,1

making the earth a fertile thing.2

Kitaro and I walk with the geese,3

shadowing them by the lake.4

You appear by the shore, all torn up with love5

for me, prophesied by the farthest star.6

I leave Kitaro to meditate in his oasis,7

and I attach myself to you. Our lips are remoras.8


The floating dawn illuminates9

your iridescent plumage. It thrills like a waterfall,10

roaring, pounding, singing to the reedy pools below.11

I run my hand through your feathers, and the feel12

of Sky and Earth and Lilium betrays my heart.13

Wings spread wide, blossom open to the sun,14

and you and I create everything in shades of purple.15

A hazy shade of purple, the violet colour spilling in your eyes16

and I am lost in your field of joyful, lavender tears.17


You are wind and rain flying together,18

making the Sky a constant, moving thing.19

We walk by the lake, remembering the night20

when the geese led me to you.21

I am all torn up with love for you,22

my growing heart desperate for eternity itself.23

Kitaro plays the Wedding March with reed flutes synthesized24

and with the soft, gentle hush of his oasis.25