Eye Of The Glowing Ruby

Eye Of The Glowing Ruby
© Surazeus
2019 03 08

Where Tara sees red star fall from the moon 
she puts on swan wings, her blind mother wove 
from laughter of children drowned in the sea, 
and flies along curving glow of the river 
to find dark ruby lodged in thick oak roots. 

Somersaulting between jaws of the dragon, 
Tara snatches ruby from its blood eye 
then transforms into otter to escape, 
and hides in apple tree on the cliff ledge 
where butterflies discuss philosophy. 

Peering into eye of the glowing ruby, 
Tara dreams first flash of the bright big bang 
which flares forth wide into spiraling torus 
of eyeless mother-stars who birth new worlds 
where people rise from lake of eyes and sing. 

Pulsing at core of the spiraling torus, 
huge round star-spider with billions of eyes 
spins web of galaxies from tangled skein 
of flashing neurons in her throbbing brain, 
so Tara sings in rhythm with sea waves. 

Swimming along gushing flow of the river, 
Tara climbs over diamond sand to cave 
where humming shadows writhe on jagged walls, 
then tucks her wings and otter cape away, 
and sits with eight sisters by the crackling fire. 

The oldest woman in the world, with hair 
gray as spider webs on high cavern roof, 
demands she give her ruby of the moon, 
so Tara swallows it into her heart 
but agony of lost love sears her soul. 

Transformed into wingless serpent of fear, 
Tara slithers into heart of the globe 
where she wears skull of every soul who lived 
in history of the world that spins in void, 
and dreams entire flow of their life to death. 

Waking in gray dawn, Tara births young boy 
with silver eyes who reaches out his hand 
to touch her face, and she remembers why 
seeds bloom into trees where ripe apples hang, 
and sings creation of the universe.