At That Moment In The Beginning Of Your Life Poem by Mark Heathcote

At that moment at the beginning of your life
There was a briny-widow-opened on death
When it closes, it'll shut out that golden sunlight
It'll shut out even twilight on a dark-cold night.

It closes in your face, on your final breath.
And at that very moment, you've steadied
Your gaze on that open window, that vista
It'll be slammed shut, frosted closed from view.

And in another ethereal spring moment, it'll be
Opened again from the dark like a living spark
With a wink and a smile, it will again whisper!
And beat wings in the shadows of your heart.

Firefly like a cricket singing on a grass blade
It'll bleed in your heart looking for love again
That jealous saving kind again anew with you.
On-that-loving-morning perfumed with jasmine dew.