Oratory Of Starlight

We are an Oratory of starlight

Gathered at the threshold

Of an audience and a speaker,

Overhearing ourselves speak-

Finding ourselves without an address

Along a walkway of sphinxes,

Its path held in the grasp of lovers

Like a long sword, slaying all distance…

Like a glistening blade of moonlight across the seas

That inflow and outflow through archways

Of the heart, through galleries of blood,

Through veins of words

And capillaries of letters

That spell our bodies in a writ soon lost 

In the constant fall of stardust

And here we are brought close together

Inside a thin, still voice deep within us 

That shatters the silence of what can never be said,

Only stepped into that we might better understand

When we listen to ourselves speak

Can you hear what is said?

Because all the blood of the seas inside of us are roaring,

Our bones are joints in space, articulating it.

We are a bridge spanning the sea in moonlight

That reaches the other shore;

Wait until we break like another wave of stars

Across the shores forever ahead of us

We convey a distance, a vast distance that closes in

Whenever one of us speaks from the heart

And a land of starlight made by our eyes 

Is there to witness and listen

Because we are a congregation of stars brought together

To attend a sermon

Of which we are the very words.

We cannot speak, but are spoken through.