Respect ensures we think and meet
in open, fair equality,
not undermine nor idolise,
just celebrate our qualities.
And last, with Trust we are as safe
in each other's hands as we are
in our own, without need to shy
away from anything at all.
These qualities combined amount
in varying degrees to form
the seedlings of relationships:
with Honesty, Respect and Trust, we Love.
Completed in the early hours (3:00) of Friday, 17th October, 2008.
(Revised 12 hours later)
There's something quite calmly hypnotic about
This lamp-lit pavement shining gold
As I walk along it in the rain
And wind and dark
This glowing plane of golden stars
Afloat amidst a sea of space
With planetary soakened leaves
And pools in bends of time and space
Which recedes beneath me as I move
Like a magic carpet under me
Never stopping short to throw me off
Merely gliding under as a gust
Of wind propels
Me on
But, no, alas! that storm or poorliness
Was not to come, and out I went to catch
A bus as every other day; and half
An hour later I was walking, when,
Approaching college round the back, it came:
A wave of misery and dread did rush
Upon my person, purge the breath of life
Right out of me; and happiness was gone.
Would it simply have struck another day,
Or may I now be blessed a different way?
With voiceless words, nor writ, allowing no response.
It locks the throat and blinds the eye and deafs the ear
With throbbing light, incessant sound and iron grip.
It's hardly large enough to hold a beating heart,
Yet here am I, in my entirety, in it.
]]>'For fighter you are not, my Love, you hear?
Your heart is much too delicate for that.
Come, sit and play your music for me here,
This view! how could you go, forsaking that?'
'That deep horizon beckons me, my darling.
It pulls me on and on across the sea
To where I can be questing, not be idling.
Alyria is where I need to be.'
Thus here I am to see my Love again,
To see if what we had does still remain.