glorious lament

oh you magic marvelous people who shine,
you glimmers of wonder,
harbors of heat and spark-
you plummeting, spinning vessels dropped from somewhere beyond the space in which you fall,
what treasure is fashioned in the fragile fathoms where you understand?

you sweet sad knowers of heartbreak,
of tragedy melting the moments that burn,
you martyrs in the mountains of your own magnificence,
it's those moments passing in your eyes that make sense of this unyielding world.

captivated mistresses to the same lover,
spellbound slaves in the kingdom where you serve,
mighty sojourners in this relentlessly evolving life that grinds anything standing in its way to dust -

I stand applauding your descent with dizzy ardent awe.