Body in Retrograde

Make my bed a nest of leaves It’s time to return all of my keys Clouds reflected in my cloudy eyes Death disrobes, sentient and wise Alien disconnection, effects unknown Like a demyelination syndrome Limbs fail to answer when called In myriad ways my mind is mauled Make my bed a nest of leaves It’s time to return all of my keys Clouds flit by reflected in my cloudy eyes Death disrobes, sentient and wise Strength is waning, weakness waxing Even simple things are now taxing The end does not dither in its step It now sheds the cat’s feet upon which it once crept Body rests in retrograde Fires of Mars and Venus fade The ship untethered begins its journey Beyond the end of fear and yearning Make my bed a nest of leaves It’s time to return all of my keys Clouds flit by reflected in my cloudy eyes Death disrobes, sentient and wise My heart beats, faltering syncopation With the world blurring into dissipation I reach up and touch the wind Incorporeal and free again Incorporeal and free again Incorporeal and free again From the cosmos to the sea my friend Make my bed a nest of leaves It’s time to return all of my keys Clouds flit by reflected in my cloudy eyes Death disrobes, sentient and wise I am now a drop of water in the flow I am lost in Tahoma’s afterglow I am the memory of what once was The process will do what it does Make my bed a nest of leaves It’s time to return all of my keys Clouds flit by reflected in my cloudy eyes Death disrobes, sentient and wise Unwinding Fibonacci sequence The line into a circle bends Kissed by retro-genesis Incomplete bucket list Make my bed a nest of leaves It’s time to return all of my keys Clouds flit by reflected in my cloudy eyes Death disrobes, sentient and wise