my life will end my life will end still i learned all your names if i loved you i will always love you in this life we were birds blessed to be branches of the same tree this is not a metaphor the tree collapses under the weight of its own fruit i saw it (all of you) like the ocean i saw with my own eyes and you called my name Mortal the Name of All Living Things and i said yes there i am. there you are. there.