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

0 posted 2004-08-08 03:06 AM


Oh, Listen!  Can you hear
how blows the wind of change
from a whisper to a shout
until I turn about … but
left or right, North or South,
through brambles, bushes, thorns,
or flowing with a river
to creations of the sea
or manifestations of a dream
waiting with an offering
I’d like to call my own.

Tedious is change
that makes me re-arrange
the way I act and speak,
the way I call your name,
and the way my soul
seeks its rightful home … but
there is no peace today
until my bed is made
and the ceiling put
on the dream of hope.        

And when I play the game
with all the cards I’m dealt
I know the ace is hiding,
I know what it looks like … but
it’s the way it feels
that keeps me with no shelter
over an unmade bed.

The building bricks of change
perhaps will wall off dreams  
or maybe lend support
for the sealing of dream pacts …
but in the here and now;
how hard it is to make a bed  
when dreams have tossed and turned!


© Copyright 2004 Helen - All Rights Reserved
~K~
Member
since 2004-07-27
Posts 148

1 posted 2004-08-08 03:32 AM


Wow! This is most impressive. A pleasure to read, thanks!
~K~
Member
since 2004-07-27
Posts 148

2 posted 2004-08-08 03:35 AM


Just had to add, this is the part that churned the most:

Tedious is change
that makes me re-arrange
the way I act and speak,
the way I call your name,
and the way my soul
seeks its rightful home … but
there is no peace today
until my bed is made
and the ceiling put
on the dream of hope.


Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115
South Africa
3 posted 2004-08-08 05:54 AM


Thank you, ~K~. I very much appreciate your reply.
passing shadows
Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577
displaced
4 posted 2004-08-09 12:46 PM


so true! well done!
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