The Mystery

A blue iris for you!

I have been known by many names --
not one, though, in so many
lifetimes I can't remember
has ever truly named me.

I was never born,
and I will never die.

And yet

     in the mystery of this moment --
     in the magic of sight and sound
     and all the senses that are forever
          coming and going--

I give birth
to birth

and death.