(before anyone else) = BAE
Mni Wiconi
Your art is my art
On a sea of dreams
On the petal of a flower
Seen before through many times
History repeats all mystics
Forests rejoice in their coming
Your art is not about how many people
Enjoy your work, it’s about
Your heart on the display of discovery
At the beck and call of
Some secret of your spirit
At the mercy of some
Deeper feeling than you cannot contain
That buds from the silence
And gives in to the melody
Behind the vibration of everything
There’s no trading honesty in this world
Our anxiety and vulnerability show enough
On our skin, we cannot hide it
That’s why, your art is my art
There’s no homepage for holistic healing
It’s born from our journey and communion
With each other, all seekers
I can’t seem to master the art of timing
To be able to find you at the right moment
The years and decades will go by
And I’ll still remember you at twenty-four
The way your hair flew to sunsets
And the moist neediness in your speech
It was in late Autumn when you went west
Where I dug up a piece of your wildlife heart
But you had already flown
Like a swan into the night
And not even my eyes that had bathed in your sunshine
For a spiritual moment could find you
Through that rush of ginger and turmeric after-taste
Like incense, you had escaped all definition
Though the impression struck me as something subtle
The leftover from a life left behind
Of meditation or even caring about chakras
Through still I can say, “your art is my art”
Water of life, tears of loving
To wash the dust of daily living
From our souls, where we were adopted
And where we departed our most beloved ones.
If vision was the art of seeing
The goodness in others that was invisible to others
I imagined you could see right into me
And it didn’t matter you were miles away
Love of beauty was a taste
And the creation of art was a kind
And our art sometimes protected
Sometimes procrastinated with our mistakes
Those were the feelings we treasured the most, in fact
You always had him, before anyone else.
Wuji Seshat 