Cocoon - Ambo

This life behind my paper veil

this seed, this flower

this thousand years I wander life

and taste each hour

The suns beyond my insect haze

I barely glimpse

the voice beyond the clattering storm

I long to kiss

Silent voice calling me out

turning my skin inside out

Sleeping me waiting to bloom

reaching out

calling out

from my cocoon

This dim awareness of the day

a life-like dream

of hovering warm inside the cell

of your bloodstream

Silent voice calling me out

turning my skin inside out

Sleeping me waiting to bloom

reaching out

calling out

from my cocoon

Slow-motion breath beneath the waves

beneath this dream on fire

beneath the fracturing break of dawn

that I desire

Tissue shell

lithe cocoon

I’ll hold you soon

Dream of God

I’m breaking out

I’m waking up

I’ll be embraced

And I’ll hold you soon

A thousand years

a thousand years

a thousand years

and I’ll hold you soon

I’ll hold you soon