GALAPAGOS NIGHT

Galapagos Night

     By Travis M. Whitehead

On a star-filled Galapagos Night,

     When the universe bore her soul,

             I sailed across the sea

                       Riding the ocean’s currents.

But I was drawn by her breath,

     Sweet jasmine from the stars,

           And her flirtations of ecstasy

           Teased me away - 

And the sails became my wings,

        The ocean’s breath my sorrow,

                As the voice of eternity’s youth

                Beckoned me away

The breath of the ocean,

     forever burning in my mouth,

           now awakened me

                 From the stupor of wakefulness.

I was an albatross,

     soaring between night and day,

              following in the footsteps of time’s shadow,

                        intoxicated by the hot blood of the universe,

                               heaving, pulsating, groaning.