Submissions by Elenore

Does love fall far from the gallows?

Will the strings of a quartet escort the dead to heaven?  
 
While a lifeless face stares out the window of the morning doesn't love survive in the moment of surrender?  
 
Are the failings of man’s flesh the sins of mankind?  
 
Aren't the sins of mankind the triumph of conquest?  
 
I used to know the difference.  
 
Will you sing me a lullaby of the angels in my time of death as the light within my soul soars into the center of death itself.  
 
Don't think me poor or...

I heard you calling to me this cold early morn.
The tug of your pull upon my conscience kept me awake.
You alerted me to all your beauty hanging there in the night.
I opened my eyes and there you were brighter than bright.

The presence of your mighty orb spins ‘round my soul through and through.
There’s no escape nor do I want to escape.
I’m entranced by your silence.
It says nothing and I hear nothing.

But yet you rise each night and set each day to remind us we are worthy of your love and affection. Who knew you could love so...