Slowly...

Slowly,
gently,
patiently,
peel back this skin,
this flesh,
these veins,
that pulse with silence.
Break each bone that harbours
the sorrow of all my yesterdays;
each bone that is drenched in
the oceans tears.
Reduce me down to,
before I
was me,
to before my eyes beheld your soul.
Let me live a hundred years more,
as a bird,
a sweet bird,
with a candy voice
that sings its eternal song; and
flies so high, it may kiss the sky..