For long now

For long now I have pondered what is the right way
do I follow the path as the surreptitious holy maiden
Sometimes I am in a hot place
burning up the manifold of all my desires
The frost of the heart soon melts away and
relieves me back to the doldrums of my waters
At times I think I was born in the wrong era
where invertebrates coil with lavender in my
unplaited hair dragged in the soil collecting
snail shells and toads
At other times I know it to be that I am a warrior
as I jettison from a beehive laying down my salt
and sword bare.

MK
photo MK