You Call Me Death
I am in all, and all in me, A boundless pulse of mystery. No edge, no end, no fixed design, The breath of worlds is also mine. *** I am the creator, vast and free, Weaving time’s deep voyager-me, Across the tides of what will be, I sail through all eternity. *** I am the spark that births the dawn, The force by which all forms are drawn, The dream from which all things arise, The fire behind uncounted skies. *** Yet in the same unbounded breath, You call me death-yes, I am death. I am the silence, calm and still, The turning tide, the bending will. *** I am the destructor, shadowed flame, The end that whispers every name, The fall of stars, the closing seam, The dark that cradles every dream. *** I am both kindness, soft and bright, A healing touch, a guiding light- And I am cruel, a sharpened edge, A storm that stands on reason’s ledge. *** I make the heavens, wide and high, Where silent hopes and angels lie, I shape the hells of fire and fear, Where shadows gather, drawing near...