Hound of Heaven Hymns - changing the points

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changing the points

I never knew I
couldn’t even
imagine it
that the
meaning could
change within
me and I
never knew
at a stroke
loss and death
rewrite the
language and
purpose of my
life love is
grief grief is
love perhaps
not the same
but a world is
redrawn a new
uncharted land
scape seascape
heartscape the
dawn is leached
of glory as is
the setting and
the daily zenith
the golden orb
no longer warms
the inner life
and floods the
view with hope
a different light
shines where I
cannot see some
move on but
most move back
to a reflected
refracted ray
lensed and focused
in the familiar
hopes and visions
for me there is a
new direction
that has to be
taken alone and
strangely not alone
though that is not
the feeling a
momentum of
union though
not recovery
‘tis more a
renunciation
and a shedding
of all certainties
and sureties
that confer
status and
progress here
is a new
beckoning horizon
where all loss
is gain and
restoration is
realised as the
dust settles and
the new direction
is a birthing never
possible in time
the womb of the
clock ticks away
but never
reaches the
destination that
death brings so
triumphantly
changing
everything