Poetry list
the abyss
at the prospect
of nature’s
winter
I have learnt
that the chill
of grief makes
the ice thinner
and the waters
below colder
as I face each
day forgetting
and remembering
treading on and
floundering
simultaneously
is this real
living
it is more real
yet less certain
than anything
I have ever known
but is the more
truthful picture
and experience
of human days
when we live
in paradox and
are held in
mystery even when
we fail to hear
see or feel it
our incompleteness
is such a gift
for it makes
us open and
vulnerable to
the other
who was and
is and is
to come
as strength
and familiarity
falter and
fall away
the abyss
is love
© Neil Thompson 2022