Poetry list
surrender
the word and the note
challenge us with meaning
it is in concert
that they speak
and confront
and transport
so that
the heart
can liberate
the mind
and beauty and
truth
permeate the
prison of
self
yield to time
for in its passing
unfolds another
world another
promise
unknown without
it and
deafened by
its absence
surrender
surrender to
a power that
brings a unique
joy
an unpossessable
truth and a
vision
that sees
beyond the fleeting
moment
so that we all
belong
to the mystery
we both long
for and fear
that all that is more
than anything
I or we
can know
as mine or ours
but the music
and the meaning
in which we drown
and breathe
and live –
pure love
© Neil Thompson 2022