The Syllables of The Other

Before the first word a moment,

within that moment all moments,

and within those moments

the collective hymns for each world

and each instant of those worlds,

for you and I,

                                                                                    songs of beginning and being

of bearing one and the other,

of not being the other,

and as that moment unfurls,

fields of unmarked graves open,

the time ripped tide rolling through every moment,

from the heart of each

lost syllables coming together,

joining, rising joyous

m other, f ather, s ister, br other

to be an intrinsic part of the word

to pair within the word

and to speak equal with the word,

their voices heard saying, "Let it be so."