So Here We Are
What went before
My shell of tears and rain
A cold and distant room
Is now a vacant space
An empty place
….
An abandoned chapter
In an unfinished book
The passages we must regret
The words bleached from the pages
In front of me an empty sheet
….
The book is open
Fallen open
The text trailing across the chapters
Travelled
From some distant place
….
To this very space
This exact space
Rushing yet
To homes unknown
To places strange and yet unseen
….
So here we are
Right here
No picture of the past
No hint about the future
The beginning a mystery
….
The ending yet to be written
You
You were always my yearning
Your soul I breathed
With every breath
….
You aroused the gentle breeze of summer
Sad
Like a sacred song
And misunderstood
Like pain
….
The window of my soul opens
Pages on the wind
Thrown aloft
To escape
Into the clear turquoise swell
….
Into the vast space
Between heaven and earth
In an endless undulant and silent flight
Burning with passion and with fire
Through the leaf red passages of time
© Ann Bagnall 2014 (Revised 2019)
