Monday, 31 August 2015

PERHAPS LOVE





Perhaps love is like a resting place,
A shelter from the storm.
It exists to give you comfort,
It is there to keep you warm.
And in those times of trouble,
When you are most alone,
The memory of love will bring you home.

Perhaps love is like a window,
Perhaps an open door,
It invites you to come closer,
It wants to show you more.
And even if you lose yourself
And don't know what to do,
The memory of love will see you through.

Love to some is like a cloud,
To some as strong as steel,
For some a way of living,
For some a way to feel.
And some say love is holding on
And some say letting go.
Some say love is everything,
Some say they don't know.

Perhaps love is like the ocean,
Full of conflict, full of change.
Like a fire when it's cold outside,
Or thunder when it rains.
If I should live forever
And all my dreams come true,
My memories of love will be of you.

-  John Denver


Friday, 14 August 2015

THE NIGHT




Grief
Is a narrow thing,
Tight against
My breath -
Begging an answer
To unanswerable
Death.

I'm remembering
A sunrise.
I saw the bright
Quick streams of light
Sing gold across
The Sky.
And it came to me then
How essential
Is the night:
For only from dark
Do we know dawn
At all.

The memory lets
One small solace in.
If we must
Endure an end
To know the endless -
Oh, gladly
I will let you go:
That when I see you
Standing at the door
To that more
Permanent place,

How quickly
I'll recognize
The eternal
In your embrace.

- Carol Lynn Pearson


Tuesday, 4 August 2015

HEREDITY




I am the family face;
Flesh perishes, I live on,
Projecting trait and trace
Through time to times anon,
And leaping from place to place
Over oblivion.

The years - heired feature that can
In curve and voice and eye
Despise the human span
Of durance - that is I;
The eternal thing in man,
That heeds no call to die.

-  Thomas Hardy