Small pebbles we praise the God of the skies

beneath them wide reaching stone and dirt carved

out from the rumbling heat of the planet’s core

our distant souls touched by the echo of silence

and begging the trees and gardens for a return

to when our footprints remembered for us the way

Oh, you remember then

Oh, you remember when

rainbows of birds opened their angel wings out

onto the darker sides of our visions of ourselves

hiding with the vulture’s shadows on our bare backs

two fading silhouettes flung against the canyon floor

the hunger for love’s promises made on drifting leaves

our wild mating calls drowned out by the river’s run

there where once your sweet song melted winter snows

deep snows in passing drifts and upon the level sides

how warm there shadowed by pine trees and your frame

a breath by breath in time with the bellowing of the wind

where it was too smooth on the hill and my foot slipped

we dove headlong in our weakened nature’s

never-ending fall from grace

never-ending love remains