a wonderful healing
the sunlight revealing
all darkness was stealing
from our sight
from our heart
.rtk.
Got inspired by Louise Glück’s poems about Dawn.
Took the word dawn, did the Google thing — ended up here.
flickers and dies
a shadow falls
in empty eyes
words of love
become but lies
that open door
of a tender heart
has quietly closed
‘round the fragile part
what once so sweetly natural
no longer feels quite right
the drift and fall so unseen
as but the passing of night
until one morning no dawn breaks
no tenderness nor warmth awakes
a loneliness encircles slow
you seek the one that you’ve loved so
you search their face in the predawn glow
whose eyes these are
you no longer know
through gossamer curtain’s fall
at a dark waking dream
hallucination
of a polarized reality
dual worlds
close enough to touch
through which truth
stumbles blind
beyond reach
walking as a wraith
moving in these worlds
captive to the bonedeep lie
implicit in the toxic grin
of inflexible conformity
lethal tradition
revered in mindless trance
change
shackled cold
to the stone of fear
change
bound
with a grip
rough as rope
at the shadowed edge
of dark and light
ignorance and knowledge
change
so far to go
so much to learn
rise from this night
beckon the dawn
someone needs
release the light
rob kistner © 2020
https://earthweal.com/2020/10/09/earthweal-open-link-weekend-40/
