Ossuary

Terri Lynn Traulsen

Where we give thanks we ground
into the ceremony that swims 
in our blood down through 
the resonate song of demise 
deep in our bones.

Where we find life we die 
to the motion of ourselves;
give way to the grief cycle
and pray from the centre of the wheel,

While around us Death circles.
We dance here in stillness,
fiercely silent to bear witness.

Palms to the ground,
feet silent to hear a
chorus of beating hearts 
applaud this thunderous barrow.

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