FULL MOON ON TOP OF A CHAMPAGNE PALM'S TIP

write freely
like no one wants to read you

this is a conversation of the soul
to your body
this is intimacy beyond intimacy
one cannot be far from the other
there is no fine line of detachment

talk, talk as though words are
molecules of air
that which your lungs need
for healthy breathing

take some cues from the silence
of the night
when lights are turning off like fireflies
flying away from you
be gentle to yourself
you have no other

write freely and be true
when finally you wake up from this storm
read what you have written again
and tell yourself how you scored so well
in the hard tests of your lifetime.