House of Flowers
I
Lost in the wilderness between
my heart and mind
I wandered in the desert
traveling South
and I passed my heart
and found a house
bursting at the windows with flowers.
I opened the door
and the scent intoxicated my being.
I found the House as myself.
II
This body will become food
for the forest crows.
These eyes will become
seeds for a new grove.
These hands will dissolve
into beds of moss.
These feet will become
wrapped by bark and beetle.
And this womb will become
a house of flowers.
III
I looked for the rooms and doors,
I grabbed my compass
and wandered for years.
I cried with the vision of flowers
falling to the ground one by one.
I came and opened my body’s openings
and found what gives life
to all that is:
the House of Flowers.