New poem – sometime illuminations…

Posted on Nov 13, 2012 in Blog feature, Recent Writing | 2 comments

 

Sometimes illuminations come to us

From a past so long ago

That to fathom them is a test.

 

But, be they the narrowest,

Most piercing of insights,

Or the broadest

Warmest of floods imaginable,

Gather in the light as it comes.

Tend it,

Burnish your day whilst you can.

 

For, in all the spaces in between,

See how the devil gapes…

And what space he has to do his mischief!

 

The time to consolidate such moments

Often hangs by a thread,

When there are so many in the world

That might seek to swallow such blessings whole

And smother them in darkness.

Drown them in their own constant,

But clever discrimination

Of selfish need, greed and ambition 

That instead demands a foil,

A litany of vacuous praise, of reassurance,

A monument, a Godhead even!

 

What fools…

 

So much beauty

Slaughtered needlessly

On the altar of achievement.

And for what?

When, beyond all this vanity,

There are so many more powerful hinges

Into the graceful and the divine.