Friday, July 07, 2023

SOMETHING SO TREMULOUS YET SO STALWART

 

something so tremulous yet so stalwart

came to me in the paradox of dreams

of the dream languages

what is this shaking of snow

from the branches of an unearthly sky

the pause in the music

for the inferred goodbyes

the words that did not form

but remained tears spilling over into seas.

you can say I didnt know a thing

in earlier years

but I knew then the tremulous and stalwart

are rarely in balance

as if the sun and the moon

appeared conjointly

in the same summer sky

announcing it's time to leave now

on a day when the pipes froze.

and no one tried to explain

why you felt like crying.

mary angela douglas 7 july 2023

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