The Spirits of Bisti (Patiently)

/ Daniel Swearingen


“The future for me is already a thing of the past –
You were my first love and you will be my last” – Bob Dylan

So long ago, first man, first woman, first love a song sung so patiently. Stars and angels, ruins beneath the eggs of Bisti, let what we do be born patiently. My love, my love I will love you eternally. My love, my love, I will see you again in Bisti eventually,

She, moves and summons so patiently, in threes, sixes and nines, the Bisti moving she on bended knee. Moving these images throughout these dreams. Swaying in song so delicately, her whispers dialectically. While Steve Perry wails, she kisses me, under rocks above me, oh another world that beckons me. Ruins that spin, while she touches me, here to live eternally. Sand pouring methodically, the notes of stars above fall melodically. The universe outside my car, our score that no one see’s. Just the spirits of Bisti so patiently, in you and me, moving, eyes closed, incessantly. We burst, worlds move, so patiently, light shines incandescently. Inside and outside of me, only this once. I succumb patiently.

Night winds fly higher than we can see, desert moon in November touches the ground in prophesy. Your hips bare the secrets inside of me, together, first woman, and first man, mythically almost tragically. Still there is a song forever, I keep gloriously. Later I learned you died, on a highway knowing what you did not see. No doubt your eyes closed, just like in Bisti, so patiently. November 29th so early. The morning star falling on a frozen desert sea. To your grave, in my head you kept me, so no one could see, the trail we blazed patiently. The spirits of Bisti, a covenant in immortality, tall columns of rock of relevancy, that watched so quietly, while we shared so patiently. So patiently.

Spirit I summon thee, so patiently, just like then move with me, let doors open like her with me. First man, first woman, let guardians shelter us in this moving desert sea, while we move too. Her to me. Me to what I cannot see, above these ruins, where shadows recede. Let what we did bring immortality. Let our love be patiently.

So long ago, first man, first woman, first love a song sung so patiently. Stars and angels, ruins beneath the eggs of Bisti, let what we do be born patiently. My love, my love I will love you eternally. My love, my love, I will see you again in Bisti eventually. – דָּנִיֵּאל – 11.29.20

106 thoughts on “The Spirits of Bisti (Patiently)”

  4. “So long ago, first man, first woman, first love a song sung so patiently. Stars and angels, ruins beneath the eggs of Bisti, let what we do be born patiently. ” This is good opener my young friend. As you usually do, there are metaphors to ponder and great truths on love to absorb throughout this post. Thank you. Bill

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  10. A beautiful love story Daniel, that brings with it so much more I think. The spiritual relationship with a natural place in your life. I took the time to look up the “eggs of Bisti”, all interesting. I can see why you write so often of this place.

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  15. “Night winds fly higher than we can see, desert moon in November touches the ground in prophesy. ” this line got to me Daniel. Well written, it touches some emotional places for me.

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  30. Excellent, Daniel!
    More rhyming than many of your prose pieces, and more passionate in a way.
    What way? Well, in the way of love – patiently, eternally.
    I’m listening to “Patiently” right now. However, while reading , “Hell’s Bells” by ACDC was playing near me.
    Both/either seem to make sense, in regards to the eggs of Bisti.
    Well penned, my friend!

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