Poetry list
love is faith is hope
grief powerful
intimate ontological
grief has changed
my faith my beloved
is not just the
other but is me
beyond understanding
but fully and entirely
true as self and
identity meaning
and purpose I have
been remade and re
formed by love by
you by us
and now I live
with memories and
shadows types that
have their ending
so love proclaims
in revelation sacrament
and word yet the
mystery is the reality
when I am flesh and
blood and your smell
and voice touch and
taste face and form
are burnt into my
mind and soul a
union that is indelible
inalienable as I breath
we are still still for
ever in a world that
ticks and moves through
time what release
and freedom do I we
know when you are
free beyond imagining
yet present in every
moment and breath
every tear and memory
triggered daily daily
relentlessly absent and
present void and visible
in the inner life of love
and faith and hope
love becomes and makes
faith and leaps leaps
into that believed precious
hope
© Neil Thompson 2023