Breath of the Fifth Day
Storm-wrought sky,
veined
with the blue fire of becoming,
where the wind’s mouth
opens—
and out of the tumult, wings unfurl:
a phoenix,
blazing,
rises from the heart of cloud,
its feathers a hymn
of flame,
each beat scattering embers
into the churning
dark.
Dragons coil in the
thunder’s throat,
their scales catching the lightning’s
edge,
serpentine, radiant,
they spiral through the storm’s
hall,
breath of fire and vapor,
their eyes bright with
the memory of stars.
Seagulls wheel and cry,
white as the
foam of vanished seas,
daring the gale,
their laughter a
thread
between tempest and dawn.
Below, the world’s first
waters
glow with a secret sun—
currents swirling in green
and gold,
where shadows bloom and vanish.
Sea serpents,
long as rivers,
twine through the kelp’s forest,
their
bodies a dance of muscle and myth,
each scale a story
written
in the language of tides.
Fish, jeweled and
swarming,
flicker in shoals—
sapphires, rubies, coins of
living light—
their fins whispering the first songs
of
hunger and delight.
Moon-jellies drift,
phantoms in the
luminous dark,
while a beast vast as wonder
stirs in the
abyss,
its breath a slow thunder
that rocks the bones of
the world.
Above and below,
the
breath moves—
not wind, not water,
but the pulse that
calls
from storm to sea,
from fire to fin,
from the
silence before to the riot of now.
Let the waters bring
forth,
let the sky be broken open—
let every creature
rise,
winged or finned,
in the wild abundance
of the
fifth day.
Here, in the clash of
elements,
in the meeting of flame and flood,
life leaps
from the mouth of chaos—
not tamed, not named,
but
glorious,
each form a question,
each movement a praise.
O, breath of the fifth day—
carry us,
as you carried the first wings and
scales,
through storm and glow,
through terror and
beauty,
into the world’s fifth morning.