Kintsugi

let's go back, shall we?      
to simpler times— 

before cracks    
fractured the blend

we once were.  warriors—  talking on moonbeams, 
walking on ribbons—   of parallel thought

faultlines in fissures 
felt like—     lava 

quelled to glimmers of gold 
scars incandescent in the mend 

dead grey rock 
to red.    hot.    joy. 

what makes your eyes light up?
what bathes us in mystery? 

come—    come closer to what emanates from passion 
I'm sketching a home in the sky 

from the honeyed lines 
of fragility 

flying— on the wings of wildness, 
upon arias in refrain

a communion made sacred 
from the alchemy of separation

I’m slightly fascinated with Japanese culture and some of the expressive words in their culture. Kitsugi is one of those; a Japanese art form of repairing broken pottery by mending the cracks with gold. Wabi Sabi another about the beauty in imperfection. But there are so many rich expressive words in Japanese that take sentences to explain.

I wanted to send this out for the better times we're building, both spiritually and emotionally, from the golden mends yet to fully play out.

This is for the journey ahead.

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