Poetry list
power
it takes strength
to lift and carry
the life that is
gone
but the power that
endures lies within the
dead
for new and risen
life
is beyond us all
yet lay in the
tomb
and carries the
dissolving flesh
into a future we
cannot calibrate or
even influence
all the king’s horses
even the king’s men
have no power to
raise us all who
have passed through
cast down discarded
inhabited and thought we
owned
there is no putting
together again
our repair
lies in
abandonment
that relinquishment
which lets in
the power beyond
flesh and
cannot rest
carry us now
and at our
end
© Neil Thompson 2022