Consummation Song Options

[RC James]

In dream nourishing light
I’ll look for you,
away from the center,
on the crowd fringe,
holding a tiny girl’s hand.

You'll sing to her,
and she'll repeat the words,
uncontained, leaping inside,
as your time unfolds
to your mother doing the same,
to her mother,
patiently outlining the way
to a mountain,
illusory to such young eyes.

Ascent is a dance,
halfway, a struggle,
kneeling on the peak,
an invocation.

Unfolding our years now,
I walk the mountain,
trying to arrive
at the cusp of
your slipping away.