Poetry list
revaluation
all my life
each day has
had an impact
an encounter beyond
me
but the material
world has
snatched me back
yet each time
less emphatically
less completely
I’ve been left
open to
another world
completely
beyond my control
and my experience
my soul mate,
my complete in other
has died
and yet
she is still
there
beyond my apprehension
but there
real
within?
no, beyond
but here
in a dialectic
that challenges
all reality
and truth
she lives
not just
in me
but there
where I know
but cannot enter
I live in a different
now
revalued
recalibrated
reset
re–viewed
there is a
new holy
radiating
into the nowness
of each
moment
here is the
gift of God
the glimpse of
the glory
yet to come
it does not
take away
the pain
the endurance
the aloneness
bleakness
emptiness
but fills
everything
with a strange
unfamiliar
hope
and presence
where I am
safe in the
hands
of the
one
who is all
and nothing
Jesus
name calling
for every
name
© Neil Thompson 2022