Title: Time Lapse

Series: Saiyuki

AN: Wanted to try a Hakkai/Kannan/Gojyo-centered poem.

Rating: T

Daffodils have this funny way about them

They sigh and breathe when you're not watching

Folding in upon themselves when you do

Apricots in cream, brilliant sun speared oranges glistening in the summer heat

Swallowing the bees and dragonflies that come to suck the sweet nectar from their wombs

Too quickly they fade, overcome by the very sun they strive for

Withering at the height of their beauty

Ashes on the ocean, swept free of mortal cares are worries

And still the ocean continues to swell, pulsing with the pull of the moon

Pulled out so far as to lose its anchor, sent crashing back

Crushing waves and dangerous currents twist and pull

Gradually changing the surface of the world around it

Melding it into a new entity, always changing, always flowing

And when the sea stills there is a quiet calm that washed away the stain of the ashes

Pulled down into the depths by currents better left undisturbed

But man is adventurous, masochistic in nature, and cannot leave the sea alone

Once tasted, salt stays on the tongue

The body starts to crave it-a swell rising in the blood and flesh and bone

Eventually the moon turns again, and there is a new swell, a new beginning

Ashes inevitably become the sea floor, buoying the sea, allowing life to flourish

One cannot walk on water alone

With ground below and light above, the sea is allowed to pulse and churn and watch and wait

Still waters run deep, but not as deep as blood, nor as deep as the soul

Water and moon and earth, forever twined together

A glorious symphony of passion and power

Strength and security

Humanity

Love

The sea is ever changing, yet forever bound to the moon

Give and take, ebb and flow

You and me and she

Us and we

Forever

Fin.