To My Beautiful Sister =]

This is a tribute I wrote for my beautiful, strong sister. I love you, honey =]

Unassumed Worth

This is a song for the selfless,

The unassuming sweetness you trail behind you

when you smile, corners nodding and eyes

scintillating wisely, the marrow of your gleaming aura

as your spinning fingers trap the strains

of song in the dimpled, pudgy digits of those who 

run to and always receive –to your very core, you wipe

their snotty little faces with that ripped-up-old-rag of family.

I love you for it, you hint of all the purity lost on this world. 

-that one thought you can always feel behind your mind’s 

processes but never breathe into the substantial-

  This is a song for the broken but faithful,

when I fell, you dug your knees into the pain and crawled on.

when I cried, you saddled your clipped-wing shoulders

with my leaden, smoky tears, and glazed my sorrow 

with that smile I know so well by now –

when I turned from the dignity of that incense rain –and love –

you drank from the torrent, tangible grace running down your chin

and bleeding from your eyes as you healed.

 This is a song for the silent but strong,

when your fears seem to harden in your flaring nostrils,

choking the air from your radiant and giddy perfection,

the beauty in your breath nearly abated by the tears, and

 memories unseen.

You rise again, dusting off those feathery white sky-singers

you even refuse to reflect to yourself.

You give all you have with every outstretched offering,

caring to the capacity of your unblackened arms,

and I love you. 

  I’ll keep myself wrapped around you as long as you need it,

remember how many times you were my solace from 

the dark reaches of this existence?

I’ll carry you until you can unfurl alone,

until you’re ready to fly solo –

with all the glory of that one soul in six billion who 

could dance as high as she wanted, and never be melted

by the plummeting eye of judgment day –

because the wax weaving through your frame isn’t wax 

at all, but

  iron –flawless elegance and excellence

that resonates to the very center of your spirit,

and holds you up like a paper-angel

wheeling through the clouds in a storm-soaked heaven.