Fireworks

FIREWORKS

If  you watch the fireworks long enough

they’ll tell you about forever.

There are two ways they do this.

There is the  child way, when you reach out to them

and they promise that  one day they will arc 

into your heart,  where you will always have them

and nothing will hurt, much,

because inside you are golden

red and green swirling

falling,  always being,  lights.

The other way is a solemn and a different forever

the forever of faith without belief, the forever of eternity.

And there are no words to explain, not even the words of colors and light.

But listen to them anyway.