Shallow the water from which I came,
Still earth, waits, to receive my trial-errored body
Dropped like a star falling
I concentrate dizzily on balance.
Like mistletoe around the oak,
You leave me dream-bitten.
I belong to time’s entropy,
And to spirit-kin, wild, wild, wild.
You say to wait… passion pooling within the hopeful ones, …
Plunged back into black holes. I wait to be whole.
Into infinitudes of time,
Cornered by curiosity,
I discover, I almost remember,
The deer run, bear skin, wolf-wild world rewandered.
Happiness halts along a dilapidated road,
And a lighthouse lurks,
Star-crimson among
Fog’s shining shadows.
Silence pierces perfectly cold loss,
Dare I soar to drift through evanescent light,
Scampering effortlessly,
A lonely light beam traveling.
So much left behind among the waves,
To a desolate world, vailed in endless tears,
Wrapped within the spiraled coils,
You fix me with beady eyes,
And with the dawn, unknown longing,
You leave me dream-bitten.
This is stunning Éilis! Your descriptions are captivating, they just make me shiver! Dream-bitten… what a wonderful phrase. Some of it eludes me, as its very specific to events I dont know about, but I love it!
Thanks Ali! 🙂
Absolutely riveting!
I’m glad you enjoyed the poem, Maryanne. Thanks for following me, too!