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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

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Ondine

Ondine 
  
Ondine ...you are untamed Tonight 
A yielding Lover….You held me long before I was born. 
speak to me with the language of Dreams 
A Mystic Bridge between the Light and Mystery. 
You Summon….then RAISE 
The Storm , 
                 the War 
                                and the Distance between two colors   
  Naked in your Beauty   only in the darkest of Nights … 
                      with no will of your own 
. let flow the Waters of Life against the Sky...I am soundless Gray 
          as you rise from this ocean…a Myth…then a Woman 
  
You do not choose to create or destroy 
but Heal with a cold and wicked heart. 
I am Criminal… Suspect …Always in chains… the fury of creation 
          In the waters that give life. 
Your Dance hidden, The Song unheard   My prayer is silent against empty Cathedral Walls 
Of your Bones. 
I suffer your Love and become immortal then die in your memory 
I am Reborn again and Again…Creating Myself from the Ashes 
Then leaving only Ashes 
  
You do not give Birth...but only plant the seed by casting 
the dimmest of lights, 
against the waters, 
against the shadow that is me. 
  
                             cwh

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For My Father For My Son

This world was never a home
For me or you


It passed within,
Reaching
Then through us,
Collected its wages
And was gone.


It did not decide to be "for"
Or "against" us
It had no real will of its own
It did not pray for us
Or provide a license
For its transitory amusements.


It was full of fear and longing
Long before we were gifted
With reason.
And its "goodness"
Turned a more sever judgment


A more complicated contract
Then its "passion"
Or its "ignorance"
Against us,
Just to mock our
Meager attempts
To be kind and tolerant.


And now
On this fully furnished planet
The heart turns cold
And wicked
Not against the outcast


But the smiling merchants
Of what is correct
Always trying to improve you
Tell you what to think or eat
How to behave
Saturated with admiration
And false prestige
They are less than the prisoners
We have become
Unto the Lord at least our lives are glorious
Our souls survive.