Poetry list
howl
the smirk of pain and death
when illness becomes our life
the breaking heart of helplessness
at my beloved’s plight
felled and stricken by the
unseen destroying foe
it is only the holy heart
that makes sense of this
dissolution and departing
that cries and howls at the
powerlessness of parting
set in time and destroyed by it
it is only release that
offers hope beyond all that
crumbles and deceives with
false promises of certitude
only the heart which both fails
and survives and conquers
leads us inwards and beyond
to a union which has no words
it is the music of which our fleeting notes
sing on and play a new dimension
where we soar and are taken
by the power of which
we only can glimpse
© Neil Thompson 2022