I See Stars About To Be Extinguished Poem by Mark Heathcote

Again my heart enters the gallows camp
At the perimeter of her crystal gaze
I see her root chakra fires burning red onyx
I see stars about to be extinguished.
But I must trust and put my faith in God, she
Who doesn't sleep, watches over us, - including me?

I rest my head upon her out would breath
Hearing the lulls of her, navel, fall and rise till they rest.
She staked my heart, I wear her; 'ship mast' laurels
Pegged my soul upon that ever-changing tide
Now she lures me to a starlit pasture and says
Here, my lord now is it your time before the next sunrise.

To walk your own, path to follow your own, course
Swallow your own, mortal pride and fear
Join the other stars about to be extinguished.
To be hunted down, before I've changed camp
Two, three generations later or more
Before the camp, the fire and, I relinquish your sword.