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… On The Gist of Where A Gather Melts Hate’s Glacier On The Nexus of Need & Knowing True Love’s Nature On The Passage of Innocence To Please Forgive Us Prayers On The Way To Meet Wide Open Arms of Our Maker On Edge of Evening and Eden’s Promised Favors … stretched The Trail of Soft Footfalls Towards Forever … There Lay A Storm-Tossed Loch Between The Rifts A Charcoal Sky That Seemed Heavy & Propped By Stilts She Was At The Limits of Her ‘All That She Could Do Lists’ She Was On The Verge of Vanishing Into Vanity’s Myths While Searching Between Urgency and An Internal Eclipse … ventured the Interim of Soft Footfalls Towards Forever She Took One Last Stiff ‘Uisge Beatha’ Spirit-Sip To Lips She Heard The Last, Lone Note of A Bagpipe’s-Signal, Lilt Envisioned The Strong Stance & Clan Colors of His Kilt and The Rich-Hued-Tow Head, Which Shone Like Gilt … as He Strode The Soft Footfalls Towards Forever … (Her Eyes Closed But Her Course Kept At Canter) Eyes Closed … Tho’ That’s Not Why It Had Gone Black She Can Nay See How To Finish Thru To Their Trek-Pact She Must Rest On A Narrow, Not-Well-Beaten Path Will He Cover The Distance From What Her Last Legs Lack? … Even If She Has Stopped & Dropped Dead In Her Tracks Will He Come To Find and Bring Her Unfalteringly Back? … from Earth-Packed, Soft Footfalls Towards Forever? Her Eyes Closed, But True Love’s In-Sight, Closes Never He Found Her, Eyes Closed … Swollen, Squeezed Into Slits He Saw The Puffed Flesh Where The Poison Had Been Spit He Saw Her and Traced The Tears She’d Held Back Then Spilt Saw Her Lovely Face Framed By Curly Dark-Red, Wet-Wisps & Finger-Nail Marks Where Her Hands Clenched Into Wee Fists … Formed & Fashioned Her Soft Footfalls Towards Forever … (His Bonny Lass, Woven In His Tartan & Tam’s Token Feather) He Saw The Emerald Heirloom Wrapped Around Her Wrists But He’d Not See In This World, Her Twin Sparkles, Again A–Glist’ His Own Eyes Became Mirrors of A Flooded Dam That Split He Took On The Burden That She Had Endured This Tryst Yet He Could Not Bear The Thought of Her Feeling A–Jilt As He Carried Her Where Clouds Covered Them Like Quilts Each Sorrowed Step & Stone & Step Spanned Breach & Breath & Built … the Bridge That Balances & Blankets: Footfalls Towards Forever … (to be continued on Part 3 of 3) Written & ©: 1/ 3-6 /2013 by: MoonBee Canady
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