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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2004-07-01 02:14 AM

I’m waiting, and waiting, and waiting
but what if the time never comes
and the ghost or the spirit of time
dries up the moisture of love?

The plains will be dry and barren,
the clouds a mere memory,
and the trees with no leaves
will become as a breeze
and lift up the crust of the earth.

When there’s no outer but only an inner
and memory brings back the clouds
will it come with the rain or only the pain
and the intolerable heat of the day?

When we peel back and look inside
we sometimes recoil at the glare
and suffer the pain of no rain today
while begging return of the clouds.

But the world may be new
with the crust removed
and we may have no need of a tree
to shade us from the heat of the day
burning down on a different outlook.

It may and we may but who is to say
if the ghost or the spirit of time
is a kindly old man or a fiend and foe
unless we can know how we feel
when we’ve peeled away and survived
the journey to the other side.

And contrary to all well known beliefs
the other side isn’t death but our choice
to find within the moisture of love
and not a mirage in a desert.

But a mirage is merely a wish, a hope,
a reflection of the soul,
and the flag at the start of a race
waved by the mysterious free!

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

1 posted 2004-07-01 02:40 AM

"And contrary to all well known beliefs
the other side isn’t death but our choice
to find within the moisture of love
and not a mirage in a desert.

But a mirage is merely a wish, a hope,
a reflection of the soul,
and the flag at the start of a race
waved by the mysterious free!"

Really intriguing concept and very interesting poem in total, Honeybunch. Reminds me in some way of Sting's "A Thousand Years" (at least I think that's the name of the song.

......jo

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

2 posted 2004-07-01 03:29 AM

well crafted, nice ending

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

3 posted 2004-07-01 04:54 AM

Well, you see, Jo, I've been led to believe that somewhere "out there" is someone pulling the strings and we merely dance to their will ... but ... there's always, and always, our own free will. I can only hope to be aware enough of how they want me to dance and that's why I wait and wait and wait until I know we are dancing together in tune.

Dixie - thank you again for the read.

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