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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2004-05-16 03:44 AM


On a chilly winter’s night
with daylight gone to rest
night recites a fairytale
and sings of better days
in preparation for
its encore in the sky.

And it rises like a wave
lifted by the love of soul
high above perceptions
and unfounded beliefs
to reign over all
and decree to the poor
the promise of return
to the true state of man.

But again, again, till death doth end
the personality today
pain enters our light shields
to nourish and to nurture
the growth in every garden
of how we’re meant to be
before infused into the soul
like a dash of water
to an alcoholic drink.

Softer then the taste
palatable and smooth
more easily assimilated
into a higher world
where experience,
the mixer,
refines the end product.

Refined and defined
transparent to the eye
upright or bent over
is what we must decide
before participation in
the world of unseen power.

Here, today, the one I know
grafted as an offshoot into reality
can’t believe in time delays
to open and reveal
the true essence of a being.

But each to each the time to know
as soul waits patiently
and I, a humble bystander,
can only say, “God speed”.

Helen / 16 May 2004


© Copyright 2004 Helen - All Rights Reserved
passing shadows
Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577
displaced
1 posted 2004-05-16 03:47 AM


very thought-provoking Helen...good write
Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
2 posted 2004-05-16 03:54 AM


Thanks passing shadows.  I do appreciate the read.
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