Blood Song
copyright 1998, D. Leilehua Yuen

Give me your heart

I need another

My blood flows too strongly

For one

Its bright red coursing

Is the rush of a freshening river

After a winter of too frozen disappointment

It is the surge of tides

Finally breaking the dykes

To reclaim the land below

It dashes against arteries and veins

And I feel them swell

In this new spring thaw

I am young and strong and lusty

Like the lambs born too soon in winter

Whose brethren die

(Blasted by the buffeting icy wind)

But having greater strength survive

(Oh, they must have two hearts)

And bleat the winds

Back to the frozen clouds

I am the lands

And the rivers

And the great wide sea

It is too much for one heart

Give me your heart.

1998, D.  Leilehua Yuen

1998 Think of Me, chapbook