Penblwydd Hapus My Love & Other Things

The world will one day fade
Skies be packed away
Assembled in some other universe.
The last bell will clink off a cliff;
Chime (kneeled) knell in cup of sea.
On oak shelves
Libraries will borrow time
From a circle of trees.
In the beginning was all things wood.

It was silence, mountain rain
Siren song timbres, poetry
Which brought us here.
Point on the horizon, so distance
Fathomed unimaginable, until
The sun cut through the ocean.
We sail our ship o’er dry land.

Love wears jewels
Over its wounds
Sea is frozen
Yet we dive for diamonds.
Fading, eternal/eventide light
Where the sun finds them,
Cornered fields are alluring
As cinema aisles,
Like Hepburn -
In a silent black and white movie.

There are buried trinkets
In thickets of forests.
Shake the branches
See our names
Written on gold blade.


Painting. Adrian Henri