Poetry list
to pray is to bleed
sometimes a drop a
slow offering of life and
self then the unstenchable
flood the dizzying drift
an overcoming when loss
is truly gain and glory
unlike the agonies and
pains the dilemmas
doubts and despairs that
bleed from others through
my heart and mind the
artery is not broken only
connected to the source
and meaning and a vein
is filled with hope released
as life and force not living
but flowing from the love
I cannot see because I and
we are enfolded by it
© Neil Thompson 2023