Black ink and sunbeams poetry

Adolescence, unfolding,

lay your fear

before the alter,

northward, smoke rises

from the steer, upon the stones,

before the threshold,

your self-knowledge,

bitter no longer, unfolds,

your self-knowledge, unfolding,

stumbles into

manhood

you,

waiting beyond

the threshold,

wait for me,

you,

knowing only gentleness,

come into you