Chasing Time
I need to know
I can leave everything !
Yes ! ~~ Leave it all
To run me headlong into that setting sun,
Burning away years of connotations,
Letting go the reins to never-never land
Soul-naked to never look back !
I need to know
I can leave everything !
Yes ! ~~ Leave it all ~~
Those idylls of cupidity,
The towers of Minas Tirith,
The ancient stones of Gormenghast,
The halls of Camelot !
Don’t please lead me back to that
Time eating counterfeit wishing,
Idolatrous wisdom of fate and destiny
Leaving me childish ~ stupefied into slumber,
Sugar wrapped and life-blood sapped.
Strip me of their pretty pretense of protection,
Gold gowns worn of dreary dross in desperation.
I need to know
I can leave everything !
Yes ! ~~ Leave it all
To run me headlong into that setting sun,
The roar of your soul falling along beside me
Into the wild rose bushes full of wild bees
Where the secret passwords of our souls
Take us in a dead heat to our shared deadfall !
That terrible pain of thorned truth
Deeper turning and turning ~~
As you become the hunter of my heart
Who knows the past and future of the trees
Held two thousand years in strong branches,
I snap my moving reflections into your gaze !
Your long-lost Queen through this twilight madness
Painted in totem red ochre pools of Eden’s waifs
Splattered through fumigated skeleton forests.
Let me be with you ~~ this world’s two firebrands ~~
That in their gut of greed soul-arsonists fear
The terrible pain of thorned truth
Deeper turning and turning ~~
As we become the hunter and the huntress
Each one hand secured by love as ever yet,
Also each one hand reaching ever beyond
The black skies and twinkling gems of imaginations.
Woo me on wings of Icarus shadowing this sad earth,
Wrap me into chains of our shared omens stirring !
Into this solar system having married our portents
Before time the pliant four winds of ceaseless change ~~
All our two-heart poems still to be as always remembered
As each half in each other melting ~~
That terrible pain of thorned truth
Deeper turning and turning ~~
Yes! ~~ leaving it all,
Together two of us
Needing to know !
Thank you for always being there…
You are most welcome Carl ~~~ Blessings
You got so much going on in this one. Wow…
Gormenghast! Thanks for reminding me – think we all need to know the same thing, but your powerful words say it so so well – thanks.
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really enjoyed this…really liked some of the references you made in this piece
Thank you!
the hunter or the huntedi sumtimes wunder the blessed or the cursed:( i am or we or the werld an my loved ones are? is i wunder many day i do i do…All our two-heart poems still to be as always remembered
As each half in each other melting ~~
That terrible pain of thorned truth
Deeper turning and turning ~~
Yes! ~~ leaving it all,
Together two of us
Needing to know !………….well angel……..I KNOW U CAN….Follow the truth & follo ur Heart and Be ur very own destinys delight, keep writin ur poetry and creating ur beautiful art for to be alive for years and years i am sure even after tgius werld wepart, Ur mark in mywerld hasbeen and is a beautiful one, thanks for being all u are to me…….namaste’……Q