Monday, January 15, 2007

LOVE MEDICINE 2

You thought you had trapped a sparrow
Yet I am the mother of all eagles
I watch you struggle in my grasp
Talons that could scoop your heart
Still beating as I feed it to my young

I wondered why I couldn't release you
Or throw you to the wind
And watch you spiral to earth
Land born as you are

This morning just before the sun rose
Burning away your darkness
I smelled the ugliness
I once called love

I roll you in my talons
As I decide t o crush you
And listen to your bones pop
Or to smash you on the rocks
And smell your blood

Or I could open my hand
And watch you run
Staggering and stumbling in your realization
That you brought down an eagle