Monarca Rising

Dress Rehearsal

by Carmen H Gray

All of those longstanding moments

Atoms constantly in motion

A tear that fell from my 6 year old eye

Drops of blood mixed with the headiness of life

Moving with the waves of the ocean

In my teenage years

The wind carrying messages and sighs

That velvet dress I wore when I was 22

That held all of my 44 year old fears

Spans of time in the speed of light

Compressed into the zip drive of my soul

Carrying those original sequences of being

Trails of stardust while standing in the starlight

It was all just in preparation for the here and now