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Just a thought? ~ a sonnet of retrieval
There comes a thought that stops us in our track,
It will not melt away or have an end:
It haunts and troubles – mind and soul look back
Retrieving, haunting, power which must descend
To change us, challenge and to make us new.
Whate’er the pain, discomfort – cost what may –
We face and learn despite our fear – what’s true
Is changing us as living truth today.
And then the memory from the past is torn,
A dream whose poetry now to prose is turned
And something strange and new is somehow born.
There is no way to backtrack now: we’ve learned
That mystery’s power is more than present’s now,
We’re held and made by hope’s eternal vow.
© Neil Thompson 2026