Sky Burial

Fade into stars
 As god machines
 With our arms
 We will shape the world
 With this breath
 We become the world
 In parts I lie, staring at the clouds
 And listening to the vultures sing
 the husk beneath this shroud
 Brings alms to fallow wings
 Vines spring from my blood
 Wheat grows of my flesh and bone
 The birds descend from above
 To lift my body from the stone
 A fair trade, my clay for a soul
 So a pigeon thrives while I have passed
 The mountain justly claims its toll
 To break the raptors' fast
 Their shrieks soothe as siren calls
 Their talons dancer's hands
 Why angels don demon shawls
 Is not for us to understand
 I glide in feather's embrace
 Their beaks beckoning the frost
 To fly past the fog, to rise into grace
 And join the loved ones we had lost
 The falcons roost upon the wind
 I mediate until the morn
 Absorbing times I've loved and sinned
 At light I wake, a being reborn