why a broken cage?
why a heart that loops and tumbles
………………..like swallows at sundown?
why the ache?
why the ache?
why the ache?
why the heft of mountains?
why the mountain rock?
why an evening sun that
………………..turns to orange and to gold?
why a flesh that burns-and-burns to
……………..embers, to a smouldering red?
why then a fistful of palm?
why the grasp that never stays?
why the stay?
Why?
Why?