Attunement
Between a door that led me back into myself
and a door that had not yet learned my name,
I stood.
I knew I had to listen
to a song that had long been playing
beneath the sound of my burning.
I had been standing so far from myself
that only fragments of it
reached me through the ashes.
I thought
I was burning inside a volcano,
until I realised
the mountain was my body,
and the lava
was the path my voice had found
to make its way out.
I no longer wait for the winter winds;
the song is not coming from afar
it moves through a crack within me.
Perhaps I am not meant
to choose between the doors.
Perhaps something within me,
long before I knew,
had already found
the direction of its flight.