Domhaintarraingt (Gravity)

i bhfad ó anseo,
 	fadó, 
fadó

a star burned
for its lifetime,

pouring forth
all that it had,
all that it was,

to become the ash
that drifted
through time
and space

to become
your flesh
and your blood 
and your bones 

and the scent
that lingers
in the air
between us

If it took 
this falling
to become
these bodies

close enough
to share
one breath,

let us fall together
to the bottom
of the dark well
within you

until light flows out
and becomes the stars
of another sky
in a world
we’ve not yet dreamed.

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Domhaintarraingt – gravity, “the pull of the world”

i bhfad ó anseo -- far from here,

fadó – long ago

these opening lines are best read aloud with Munster dialect pronunciation

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