You cannot lose me, I will leave you a sign

O vanishing days, death is in life,
I know I know.

Come here, Consoler, quiet my heart.
Grant me, Silencer, respite from the pain.
Cover all that’s too bright with your shadows.

Let me rest in your silence
–its cooling release.

Give me relief from the light
–and the strength to remain steady.

You join our hands together
like never before.
We trust our love. We cannot say
how much we are one.

All we can do is cry.

O vanishing days, give me your hands,
you cannot escape me, there’ll be no release.

Even if the wind hot and strange warns me away
I will not release you. Oh you know the smile
with which I gave myself to you.

The blood ever restless calls me now
to board ships I’ve never steered.

O vanishing days, give me your hands
you cannot lose me, I will leave you a sign.

This page --and a flame behind.

My weekly pieces are generally written well in advance, today however is different. I bumped the scheduled piece for today and wrote this one just in the last hour or so –because I simply had to.

I’m thankful this morning for the inspiration provided by three poems that were waiting for me by Hannah Arendt.

Rest in eternal peace our beautiful friend Debbie, and to my brother from another mother –Mark, this is all I have man, this is all that I have.

Dream intentionally - while you’re awake.