Ode to Forever Swirling Sunlight
My final notation will come
Close to silence, it will be subtle
It won’t take me long to write
Poems ought to come naturally
Like kissing and giving voice
To what burns to get out
It will take all of my heart
The beating poor little thing
That loved too much, with
All the breath in the world
It will be simple, in that
The final notation is always
Somehow about God
Who is as simple as
The universe, as fresh
As the cities of the future
My descendants will know me
By what I chose to say
What I never planned, but was
What I dreamed most
At the core of my ribs
I am coming to all the pieces
Of my life that led me
Divinity, the outstretched gift
That was a human life
Like a valediction of all virtue
And a forbidden taste of morning
Before I even got to undress
In the empty notations of the sun.
Wuji Seshat 