Poetry list
dark mystery
a song of two souls
each death and passing
blots out the sun and
chills the inner soul and
outer skin but nought
prepares you for your
true love’s flesh to leave
you broken forlorn
distraught there is a
disjunction of all being
a loss diminishment
beyond reckon or measure
the heart beats but the
blood is chilled and no
longer colours life with
passion and joy here is
disconnection the
quintessence of all change
that is grief and the horror
of loss life telescopes
back into existence losing
the dimension of coloured
living joy union brings
a mystery and parting
severs leaving a faint
and ghostly shadow a
hope a whispered presence
a possibility that love alone
can make real upon that
other shore the home we
yearn the end Thou promises
the beginning born of love
© Neil Thompson 2023