The Greater Wings - Julie Byrne

I drank the air to be nearer to you

Voices widen through the room

Distant galaxies move

I'm not here for nothing

Music in the walls

You were in the moment

With your life across the chord

Was this always or never before

I feel it the tilt of the planet

Panorama of the valley

Measure me by what I've risked

For these are not ordinary moments

But the circle that I traced in the palm of my hand

You're always in the band

Forever underground

Name my grief to let it sing

To carry you up on the greater wings

Pink noise moonrise devotion

It is not what is seen but what is known forever

I hope never to arrive here

With nothing new to show you as so many others have

And we hold the pact

Forever underground

Still rising to sing

To carry you up on the greater wings