Too Beautiful to Regret

Last night I slept hard but I slept inside a dream
We revolve around the endless ballroom
Outside a leaden sky
We dance , the monster and I
All the candles in their sconces
The wax is dripping down
The musicians play in darkness
Otherwise there is no sound
I waltz in grace with the beast
My  tears wet against his chest
I hear his heart beat
We never miss a step
And I know his voice is deep and I know his shoulders are wide
As we revolve in circles held
with sacred warmth and pressure
He holds me very tight
And I remember love

We waltz alone
About the endless stage
The woods are  very wild around us
In the woods other monsters may be found
But to  this one  I belong

So memory has to  be
In the feelings that are it’s meat
The music may not be real
But musicians do suffer so to feel
And I remember sound

I wake into another dream flying
Upon the back of a crane
The night is clear the stars are there
His wings lift up and down
Then they are steady
Gliding on the back of the air

I know his bones are fragile
I know his beak is long
But in our flight together
We learn as we fly along

In the midnight sky in the clouds even in the scattered snow
We surf as we are whispered here and there we go

And I remember birth
Falling to the earth

The dark and frothy sea
Becomes a home to me

My bulky body glides the currents of warm and cold
And against my mothers scaly side
I hear her naming me
And with sacred warmth and pleasure
I hear her talk to me then far away answer
Another whales call in our family

And they say  beings must suffer to remember
Every grief they would choose to forget

I will hold what I learned
This wild and peaceful night
I will hold in my bones in my bones
And never be hungry again
Leaving in  the past what was lost to be learned
So In the future and the present
We need never forget

Who and where we are is timeless
Too beautiful to ever regret