Inuit Love Song

Inuit kiss
ph. White Wolf

The day you smile at me

Like a wolf,

I will sing to the Moon.

The day your heart sees me

Like an eagle,

I will fly over the Earth.

The day you lie with me

Like a bear in winter,

I will slumber.

The day you join your hands with mine,

I will capture a dream,

And it will last forever.

The day you want a home,

An ice fortress I will ask of Agloolik,

And there we will live, listening to the wind

And dancing with fire under the stars.

The day we grow old,

And this life we must leave,

A year with Anguta we will sleep.

Awoken, one last time,

Out at sea I will take you

So that Sedna may show us

All the lands of the world.

The day we grow tired of going

To the Moon where Aningan dwells,

We will rest.

And when at the end of it all,

Like stars we will shine in the sky,

Still I will dream of your smile

In that humble tupiq.

by Jason R. Forbus

this poem is meant as a homage to Inuit mythology,

as all world's mythologies connect humanity to

our shared sense of wonder before creation