Goddess of my Life

Beauty like a Starry Night
On the wall
Next the solid orange of sunrise;
The breeze in her face
Bare feet in the sand, spray in the air,
Or until at a martini sunset
She could say,
"Did you see the Rings on Saturn first?
Could you feel it when you burst slimy and bloody
into this new world
Or when you turned, fat and rolly
onto your stomach the first time?
Can you still hear the lullaby, shul, shul, I sang
As you swayed in the hammock in the shade?
Did you see the first steps,
Teetering like before the Fall of Man,
A tight-wire act,
Leaning on the outer edge of your soul
Like almost the next day,
Learning a little of the Truth,
When you waltzed down the hall
And fell into the bathroom face first
That long night of your first drunk?"
Beauty all around her,
Remembering in the undiscovered world,
Knowing me best, she smiles,
"Drink deep and nourish well,
For it is I that have taught you the
Love of Truth and Beauty
And of peanut-butter sandwiches."