Grace In Falling

Grace in Falling

I have moved through the three ordinary sounds of life
to find you waiting next to
all the unspoken words and 
undreamt of understanding you longed for.
So we Walked the long mind of winter to become this lost, then wrote "More myth than 
woman" 
and titled it with another woman's name
as a gift
veiled.

I could not touch her face with all my 
words...without suspicion but held
her all the same. 

I see your tears
all the unchanged pain exchanged for
hope.
and find a currency unspent
hiding in your pockets with so much earth.



here love has only one meaning and the soul
cannot defend itself from all the lies
I once told you.

I am not this Earth or the weapon that 
frees you with it's own destruction.
I can not bring you peace or the
love
born outside your understanding.

we are not these Bodies
you tell me.
I am fighting for every breath now 
seeking all the unspoken words and 
undreamt of understanding I long for
but the soul moves on
learning who you are
and
what you have
and 
will
mean
to tomorrow.
the Earth will remember you as
love.

           cwh
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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Huffman Avatar
November 5, 2010 at 6:22 PM
I want to Thank each of you for reading my work. I have been published many times both as a poet and a photographer...but I wanted to find a few like mined people to talk with. Thing is I do not know how to connect to any one fo you on a personal level....
Brown Avatar
November 5, 2010 at 9:49 AM
Enjoyed reading the many diverse poems here today. I am glad to have came across your amongst these wonderful poems Carl. Wishing you a magnificent weekend. Love, Carol
Mehta Avatar
November 4, 2010 at 7:23 AM
Very suggestive title for Grace Falling, nice expressions you have penned so well, carl
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