Poetry list
value the shadows
the tidal water glistens
and flows coming to the
window the leaving a
strand this constant
pattern and variation
are the backdrop to my
outer world where we
loved so strongly like
the waters beside us
surging raging placid
serene sparkling the
love is unquenchable but
now inhabits a world
transformed into shadows
where the business and
bustle and certainties of
life have lost all colour
and vivid immediacy
the shadows bear the
love of the past present
and yet to come and now
I realise more than ever
it has always been so
and it is the shadows
that carry the joy of
the meeting the fusion
the ecstasies that form a
background music a
diorama of the heart
and the reality of the
mystery that makes us
me and you we are
never and ever earthed
in the understated and
mostly unrecognised the
delirium of being lost
and held
in the now that
is never mine
but always yours
this shadowy truth
is shared and revealed
by the Love that dies
with us till the
shadows lengthen into
the infinite darkness of
light perpetual
© Neil Thompson 2023