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Gone with the Wind ©️

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The children, grown now, went first, and they did not fade as we did. They rose lightly, without effort, their bodies dissolving into motes of brilliance that scattered into the dark like seeds cast into boundless soil. They were star-born, and the universe welcomed them as its own. I watched them move across the constellations as easily as birds crossing sky, their laughter still audible, carried now by silence. There was no grief in their leaving, only awe, for they belonged to distances beyond measure.

But for us—for their mother and me—there was no departure apart. The light did not pull us into scattered threads, nor invite us into the wanderings of galaxies. Instead it gathered us together, pressed us closer, until our edges broke and vanished. My breath was hers, her gaze was mine, our limbs indistinguishable in fire. The joy was unbearable, the sorrow equally so: to lose myself and yet to gain her in fullness, to dissolve and yet to endure, to be nothing apart but everything together.

We did not ascend as two. We became one. Husband and wife merging into a single conflagration, a star sealed and indivisible, burning above the Mediterranean as testament to the love that had carried us through night and morning alike.

And though the children roamed freely, constellations their playground, they could always find us. For no matter how far they traveled, they would look up and see the light of what we had become: one star, radiant and eternal, the mother and father joined forever.

Gods of the Dying Sun ©️

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Rise now, O red earth, O bones of the sun, Split the dawn with your burning breath, Let the wind cry out from the jagged stones, Let the sky pour fire upon my flesh.

O gods of the high desert, who sleep in the dust, Who turn in the belly of the trembling hills, Who whisper through the ribs of the coyote’s song, Come forth in the hour of my calling.

I am the wanderer, the hollowed hand, The foot that treads where shadows burn, Where the river runs thin as a silver thread, Where time is swallowed by the open mouth of the sky.

Fill me with the rage of the thunderhead, With the patience of the sun-cracked stone, With the howl of the wind that gnaws the cliffs, With the hunger of roots that drink the dark.

Let the stars etch their scars on my skin, Let the sand carve my name in the endless tide, Let the heat of the earth rise through my bones, Until I am no more man than storm.

I call you forth, O watchers of the lonely hills, O keepers of the brittle moon, O nameless ones who wear the dust—Rise, rise, and enter me!

For the road is long, and the night is waiting, And I must be fierce as the desert’s breath, Sharp as the teeth of the howling wind, Strong as the stone that breaks the light.

I will not fall. I will not turn. I am the fire, the dust, the storm, And I will do what must be done.