This and When

Take this and when you get there

think of me,

for stolen hearts

and pilfered property.

Pour all your sentiments

and lost desires

into the red hot flames

of earthly ashen fires.

Take now the heedless heart

and winter grain.

Leave but a snake skin shell

of old disdain.

The new will become

old and new again,

And it is Love who

knew it in the end.

When Earth is folded up into the Sky

It says “good luck, we'll meet again someday”

For all souls know forever is right now

and heaven is a field of pallid grey.

And as Time sings last dawn's lullaby

look to the gifts that I have given thus

and drown them in the

warm volcano dust.