Stringing stars

Mihoko Ogaki — Milky Ways

Look no further
Close your eyes
Get down inside

Look not beyond
You are all behind
And under now

Close your eyes
You think it’s your brain
Stringing up all these words?

It’s there in your breath
It comes in your blood

Hear no further
For this is the language of stars
Of dark cold nights
Before the first beating hearts

Hush now go
Further down below
You’re a guy you’re a girl
You’re a brief constellation of dust
Held together by chance and time

Hark -for the hour is now
You’re a symphony of nerves
You’re a thunder of lights

You’re a man you’re a woman
You’re a warm bubble of atoms

You’re about to dissolve
Into a thousand stars