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Sonambulance

When we awake from the mist

 

I am in shadow,

 

the perambulance of

 

grief revisited,

 

till the lengthening toombstone

 

dwarfs hyperion-

 

a sculptors cast ,my shell my heart

 

 

 

 

The gestapo of faith revisited

 

that others may from my net

 

Dream sweet prision free-

 

psychedelic arrest eclipsing

 

aeons lost fears.

 

 

 

The secret of the hate filled chamber

 

green gas ,green light &

 

mercy all,

 

cracking under boot

 

ribs target

 

sheltering from a fathers love.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Were you or I to slumber

 

nor stir in walking shade

 

what nets of love entomb us

 

lest we rise-

the shining ,the living yet are gone

 

earth's first wake

 

 

 

 

 

Yet quickened beyond eyes recognition

 

The silver sash my silence brings;

 

a field soughed deep and empty

 

a fitting palace

 

for a king

 

The denseless hollows of my tears

 

or yet unvapoured from the ground

 

the shadow of the sky appears

 

enshrined

 

in rainbow's fallen glass.

 

 

 

 

If a child is not a fallen god

 

- why so unquiet and shallow the grave

 

that holds the brave emancipator

 

in such a gentle grasp .

 

 

 

 

Till in death we meet asunder

 

apart can never live

 

a blossom as in winter hangs its head

 

so a laurel wreath astutely made our measure

 

must be cast...

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mark-nelson
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Sep 27, 2010
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