Bones

Shells of stone

Singing tones

Stories held, shown

In Aching of bones

Sensing the unknown

Ancestral songs

Rattling we belong

Bark, exoskeletons

Shaping us strong

Moving bodies along

Ancient water rite

Dropping Stalactite

Dripping stalagmite

Pillars to delight

With Vertical insight

Bones intimacy

Sensed In me & In you

As close as breath

Yet unknowable view

Held only after death

By another’ s purview

Minerals of earth

Elements here, Stardust

Intimacy of bones

With life before, beyond

May what we sense

in our bones

Reminds us, in echos

We are never alone