A child of the word

Be a child of the word
and not the word of a child,
so that you do not become a frog
crouching in the mud.

For you are no longer
in the hands of creation
to be playing in your circle.
Where else will you find cover?
Will you not slide like DNA
back into a bottomless pit?

Only those
who are becoming each other’s shelter
will rise from the eternity of darkness.