If the Cave Told the Story

If the Cave Told the Story

A place fell away
and from that space I rose
I had always been there but was freed

I became a place of shelter
an animal could come in

I became an inside

Humans dragged in fire
brought me burnable things then
burned them up

Tree pieces
burned
plant pieces
burned
bodies of animals
burned

I would become heat for them

And hold them dry or cool
if that is what they asked with their bodies

From here I can see flowers
snow

The gift I have been given
is this spilling water
from it I learn of the far perimeter

what it holds
I press back