I Live Out

By Julie Makhoul

I live out the storm and the stillness, 

Out past the edge where names dissolve. 

I live out the ache, the echo, 

The shine in constellations I evolve.

I live out myths in petaled hues, 

Through every pane the light refracts. 

A stained-glass goddess, rose and rune, 

Who never breaks, who never lacks.

I live out music sewn in feathers, 

Phoenix-spiraled, ever high. 

I live out healing dressed in thunder, 

Dancing with a violet sky.

I live out the stars, and they sing my name 

Through cosmic bloom and lover's flame. 

I live out the moon's quiet resolve, 

A balm where broken light dissolves.

I live out the glass, in shards of grace,

Each petal placed with soft embrace. 

A goddess woven of rune and rose, 

Who dances where the silence grows.

I live out music in feathered arcs, 

Where phoenix breath ignites the dark. 

I live out thunder clothed in hue, 

Violet skies that love me true.

I live out wild, unwritten flight 

Not bound to fate but born of light. 

I live out loud, I live out whole, 

A song, a fire, a sacred soul.

I live out love in sacred motion, 

Unwritten, wild, -

I live.

By Julie Makhoul