Return Her Savage Heart

Awaken, ye, with all your might and take back your savage soul with a lion’s heart

            let it share the mother’s thrumming, coursing, torrid pulse

love and live dancing with abandon on her fruited plains

            surrender to her whispered secrets, ride her wild ride

then give back what you take from her

            and give her all you’ve got

return the fragrance and the wonder

            the heated blood, the raucous dew

            return the savage heart and soul she gives to you

her destiny is your legacy--not foretold but told

            when you tell them with your life

Anton Elohan Byers

Radiant and Speechless, I

Neither wave nor particle, but flood of life undaunted by what could be or should be

Flowing unrepentant, visceral and alive even in dark days

It slips the hold of the mighty and the few

Radiant and speechless, I

Witness the milk of life slip past the gate of thought

            into the freedom of the calling sky

And return again as my beholding eye