The Unicorn and the Sunflower

Keith Michael Roberts, copyright 1977 - .

How much must I give?
How long does it take
to call this lonely sailor
from this salty lake?

My angel is a child,
a candle in the bones of a man,
awaiting the time that the child may shine
as an angel again.

Like a rainbow ripped by the wind,
or a shell too thin for the falcon,
like the great whales or the fairytales
or the dolphin,
I have set my sails in the breeze
to be steered by the star within me,
'til the day you will hear
that I’ve disappeared completely.

In our time and place of power,
we all dance in the dust of the hour,
to die and be born
a unicorn or a sunflower.

There’s an ocean in a single shell.
There are untold shells in the sea.
So creation confides the truth she hides
in simplicity.

But the heart may only see
the love in a lightning sky,
where the thunderheads thirst
For the best wine first.
She cries,

Like a rainbow ripped by the wind,
or a shell too thin for the falcon,
like the great whales or the fairytales
or the dolphin,
I have set my sails in the breeze
to be steered by the star within me,
'til the day you will hear
that I’ve disappeared completely.

In our time and place of power,
we all dance in the dust of the hour,
to die and be born
a unicorn or a sunflower.

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