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Yesterday Unified
06 August 2006

Her eyes were like a heart
her soul, yesterday unified
Yet there was still the distance
and that separation, of untamed love

Just to wonder, if grace could be kept
to want her hand to touch in flesh
Another day of many to await
as if that moment of time would arrive

Her eyes, that place to escape
yet masked, only in a photograph torn
That well worn image, scared upon a mind
every day another thought, yet trapped in place

God created the beginning,
He gave the universe a name
Then He dictated the terms of sin
in casting others out, naming shame

So what of this yesterday unified
what of this love in eyes kept
Would it ever be love
both him and her, her and him
across a world, one night alone


© 2006 Christopher W Herbert (a New Zealand Poet)

a poet who cares