Lily Victoria
'An Island on the Moon' (extract)
Song/MP3, 2023
...to soothe and be soothed.
Image: The Galileo spacecraft took the images in 1992 on its way to explore the Jupiter system in 1995-97. (NASA)
‘A Place’
“far out on the horizon lies a place where heaven and earth meet…”
Lily is a singer/songwriter, qualified sound healer and a student of Amazonian plant medicines. Lily exhibited two works in Life After Death, her poem, ‘A Place’ continues;
“...a place where clouds rise into mountain peaks stretched out like time and constellations blink to life on lake so still that bare feet step on stars
a place where sunrise bows to memories:
the first wish you made
to a silent God
or a shooting star
or a copper coin
dropped down the well of spent years
a place where the soul is drunk
on words whispered beneath bedsheets and the heart can't be broken by a promise or the touch of another
a place where lost loves nestle on branches that drip with milk and honey and the silver dew of Sunday morning
a place where prayers are lifted
from your tongue like a first kiss and are answered the moment that you breathe them
a place where tears are stolen from your cheeks and frankincense burns like a psalm in the air
far out on the horizon lies a place where I wait for you.”