Cailean Poem by Gabrielle Ciarann Roniyah Baer

Jedi are star-children, Cai
so my gentle, green eyed granddam said
and smiled,
while I craned to search the jeweled sky,
all childhood's yearning in round blue eyes
to see fond, parental faces there,
so I dreamt.

Jedi are fire-children, Cai
This my sad eyed warrior tutor taught
and watched,
as I touched to shimmering laser-fire
eager and hesitant at once,
the blazing sword when given
marked my boyhood's end,
so I laughed.

Jedi are Life's children, Cai
so my somber, clear eyed master told
and grieved,
as my generation fell
each one brave and beautiful and fool,
thinking to heal the galaxy
dying for beings who called us
'hardly men at all'
so I wept.

Jedi will be our children, Cai
this my darkeyed, wondrous lady foretold
and knew,
as I twined my being with hers
beneath stars, beside fires, and before Life's call,
we were joyous, afraid and loving enough
to make ourselves
and our galaxy anew
so I lived.


(written in January,1982)