New Beginnings

This is a reverse poem (it has a different meaning forward and backward):

Lava from the dry, cracked ground

Flowing up and into the sky onto the Rock

Twisting and turning into the center of the Great Tree

Scarlet turns to Crystal blue;

Scorching death is true Life

Lava turns to water,

Running past the Great Tree,

Down the Rock

Creating the Breath of Life

It exhales heavily onto the ground,

Spreading its breath across the ground

From the Breath of Life spring two beings

He known as Wolf is the ruler of the forests

She known as Bird is the ruler of the skies

A love that wants to blossom

Their nature stops them from their love

Unwilling to bear the pain she leaves herself to drift

Spiraling away from her lover.

She drops many feathers that morph into sky beasts,

While her tears water the dead ground below

 She drops many feathers that morph into sky beasts,

While her tears water the dead ground below

Crying from her betrayal

His eye is gouged from his face

He throws it into the night sky

So he can watch

His lover flies towards the mountains

Away from him and into her lonely solitary life

If you listen closely

You can hear him howling in pain

The full moon shines on them

The sky beasts are made of his lover’s tears

He will never move from his vigilant watch,

His shed fur become beasts of all kinds

They move freely and live on his ground

Humans rise from the shed fur and begin to settle

His jealousy of them grows

He and his kin attack humans

Trying in vain to ease his pain

He hopes they feel his suffering

From ashes sprout new beginnings