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Open Poetry #37

And I cry

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2006-04-25 05:08 PM

I see no beggar man with beard and old trench coat
and hear no bell a-ringing to announce the end of life
but verily someone said, “Prepare and be ready”
and so I threw it all away that day I said, “Okay”.

But after the throw-away I find I’m still possessed
of a need and a desire that I don’t understand
because it clings and it sings and it shouts internally
until at night it whispers and whispers roll like thunder does
from this lifetime now and on into the next ~
and I cry.

Carry me, carry me, but I don’t want the weight
of the plain and simple ordinary unrequited love
that distorts the very fiber of soul’s complexity
and leaves it like a dull and grotesque effigy
from this lifetime now and on into the next ~
and I cry.

Now, hear me, hear me, tears aren’t the issue here
but the well of love from which they come
that faces to eternity head bowed and bewildered
at the enormity and magnitude of its capacity to feel
and I cry, and I cry, because I cannot count
the many lifetimes yet to come of need and desire.

Helen / 25 April 2006

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