Our Inheritance is to Live

Midnight
grapples
four elements
for prosperity
of poets' hearts
final seconds
of oblivion

grappling
Earth and Sky
Oceans and Fire
are forces
microscopic
and yet gigantic
in expression, too.

Four elements
like our left and right
front and back
map out universes
of travel
for healing and wealing,
ingenuity and acceptance

prospering
in streams
that run four corners
cradled here on Earth
with fire in our light
and breaths in our sight
creating a moment- free

Poets' hearts
burn and swim
fly and squirm
to be free
in that moment- alive

Final seconds
unravel mysteries
as light of life
burns all to ashes
while water quenches
and we form
from resultant mud
an inheritance

Oblivion
forces
maps of universes
that run the four corners
to burn, swim, fly, and squirm
our inheritance