You Have Arrived

You also reach the stairs to a thousand
soft clouds washing your feet
the fairies danced in a silent circle

on the banks of the river in the middle of the forest
flowers fall back bloom
birds with broken wings
back fly
water fairies play fog

your shadow slipped
imitate the wind motion
grief in leaf blades
miss the drifting
to you incarnate fog

a thousand steps you took
to the edge
my ribs melt in the bats of a bat
in a rock cave
asked squealed in the rapids
the water that arrives where will it go?

smell your neck fragrant coffee flowers
a thousand stairs dangling in the clouds
fairies play melodies
accompany you to the edge