Yet I Remain

Yet I Remain


There are no tethers, yet I remain,
no locked doors or barred windows,
no walls, no chained gates, no guards,
for I am free, of and from, any bondage
to this world - save love.

These bonds do not constrain my love
they light the way that I may see its beauty,
adjust the lighting lest a shadow pass
across my heart.  Such bonds are not
a limitation, they are the gleam of sunlight
reflecting on the surface of a waiting moon.

This invisible web, more delicate than the
finest spider spun silk, resonates the hum
of distant breezes, holds to daybreaks
dew drop dreams, enfolds in perfect
symmetry one half of whole.

This power to be unattached yet still
connected, a pebble reaching out
in rippling touch, a thought, its only
true vibration, caressing with its freedom
those still longing to be free.


For PD’s -  ‘a poem you have not entered in a past contest #11’
John G. Lawless
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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A   Avatar
April 2, 2015 at 8:36 PM
John, thank you for the old reply...PD
Mehta Avatar
September 13, 2014 at 8:34 AM
Congrats on the win, John
Meier-Hans Avatar
September 12, 2014 at 10:35 PM
Congratulations on your win John.
Lawless Avatar
September 12, 2014 at 11:00 PM
Thanks Brenda
A   Avatar
September 12, 2014 at 2:04 PM
John, Congratulations, on your awesome win. Thank you for supporting one of my latest contest. Enjoy my newest blog "A Senior Moment" if you'd like. LOVE LINDA
Lawless Avatar
September 12, 2014 at 11:00 PM
PD, this was an interesting group of poem in this "free for all" contest. Thanks again for you time and effort sponsoring it.
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