Glimpse


GLIMPSE 

My heart a pouch of rich wine overlays yours
a drop of blood spilled over an arum lily
waits with longing intense, retains no tears
as it remembers its cringes of final fear when it
jumped into your chest of steel, smell of fruit juice, water and old leather all around

My soul lays naked in a room of light while your music plays next door
two plumed serpents dance slow dances to rhythms of drums and pipes, notes of knowingness, sounds repeated 
I listen again and again

Spacious a white room waits aged and innocent 
in a no-zone forest of mushrooms, poppies and pebbles as the piano vibrates with silence
while Goddess does not speak of a mission that never ends, watching for symbols that appear and vanish while progress moves worse than a snail with a footsore over splintered glass

Surrender struggles to be free !

Drops in space hung on Venus threads
breasts heaving and falling, passing tests of temperance, strength, solitude 
swallow death and darkened silence deep 
in a psyche of five thousand years

Across oceans of space my thoughts travel
not knowing whether they reach your light or
hermit in your head or the warehouse in which
you play with waves of froth on dirty sand
seals and gulls glide and shout

A lighthouse looks on still and sure
muck in the harbour awaits an embrace 
fried chips beckon and call to fill my open belly of waiting Sun as love struggles for freedom on a higher plane with yours in ether on a wall I read

Still you sleep a hundred thousand sleeps of
fear and watchfulness 
in the distance runs Skeleton Woman with tangled bones to be untangled 
knowing that long ago she completed her work 
of inner peace with honours 
Spartacus and Helen looking on

I wait not for you alone but to fill your Heart 
for another work of love, to drink your tears
slate your thirst ~become one, two, three to 
ten again as dough rises with surprises inside
eggs fresh full, two yolks and cream to be 
eaten on a jetty of harmonious voids

Love lost and found, lost and found
all over again

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