Discovery Authors Book Tour (Discover 8) Breathing for Clouds by Chris Reilley

Breathing for Clouds

BREATHING FOR CLOUDS

I throw my heart up into the sky -

honest joy pinwheeling on errant breeze.

Take this, this simple song and do what you will,

throw it into the abyss of the center,

hide it where the sand meets the sea,

bury it beneath the scales of monsters.

Surely somewhere, somewhen,

it will be found by one who needed to find it.

It will be measured, wondered about, recited.

Perhaps a high note might stun a pragmatist

or maybe the low throb of its rhythm

will find a gaunt heart to give its warmth to.

But mark me well, oh gentle reader,

one fine day, when the world least expects it

the love that is crafted in this simple voice

will spin and whirl, dip and dive, breathing for clouds.

One whose world needed exactly this voice to set it free

will slap life with fevered palm and be its master.

©2014 Christopher Reilley

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