Iris

Don’t look up in vain,
don’t search for stars, don’t pray,
don’t waste your time scrying at the lake.

My message will come through while you are fully alive.

I’ll make sure to fill it with many different colors –

if you hum it, it will be an ecstatic melody,

if you taste it, it will be a meal worthy of gods,

and when you drift into stillness,
you will feel its touch.