Poetry list
erasure
traces remain
but the vitality
and presence
are underground
background music
to the activity
of the now
a remembrance
but only for some
all the effort
and energy of
writing a life
now rubbed out
as matter can
no longer carry
spirit and the
breath is beyond
capture and the
fire uncontained
by flesh and
thought
this span of
dust is rewritten
by the still
point
and the absence
is a truth that
reforms all earth
bound living
taking us all
out invisibly
and eternally
into the now
that can be
never and
always
© Neil Thompson 2022