Monday, December 07, 2009

You Are Here: story and voice by Gerard Rudolf

Still dark.
You are in a car.
Black road ahead.
Poles bend past the side window.
Bushes blur. Koppies drift. Far off mountains move slower.
The smell of drought.
You are driving through sameness. The sameness of life.
You speed up. Hot tyres drone on cold tar.
Below the tar, a forgotten dirt track.
Deeper still insects tunnel. Roots. Eyeless things.
Now, dig deeper.
Crystalline forms. Fractals.
Below that shells and bones of ancient fish.
Petrified ocean old as stars.
Walls between mind and matter melt. Glacier slow.

You are here.
You live here.
You have always been here.
Terrene, clotted with rootedness.

You are stone. Sand. Dust. Powder. Particle.
The past is the present. The past brought you here.
Time is the endless fence rushing past.
Yet there are other parts to the moment.
Solar winds billow beyond imagination. Air in your nostrils.
Air made by plants.
Time here is time termless. Earth and sky.
Dig here and you emerge among the stars.
Die here and you'll be back in the cradle.
Life here begins where astronomers' laws never existed.
Then the sun.
It flares over the far horizon.
Swallow scuds from a thorny bush.
First light.

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from Orphaned Lullabyes, released June 1, 2010

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