Jayne Eggins Poet Blank verse

All I Have

I longed for more time
to lay cornerstones, 
but life had started 
detaching my soles


I wanted more daylight
to see a Galaxy of beauty
that rested, 
within one finger of breath


I desired of many things


to walk the Ponte Vecchio
and glimmer in its wares, 
casting a reflection in the Arno
that wavered to the Vasari


to shelter 
beneath a Sistine vision
as Michelangelo, Raphael
Botticelli and Bernini 
dart in and out 
of my haunt,
smudging all in view


to drink the atmosphere
of Stonehenge,
drowning in its history 
and laying as sacrifice
in a swoon of blood


‘I want’ 
screamed a child in me


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I’ve become a fresco
fingerprinted, 
with need and desire


astral traveling
from the nib of my pen,
I sate my thirst


but,
as time lessens, 
and daylight fades
in the history 
that is me


‘I have’
what whispers in thralls


a will that ever dreams

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