Embracing the End

6 March 2016

Last Summer

I discovered ways

To speak love

Between lines

Weaving melodies and word

Reinventing speech

 

Time runner

I haggled with death

Won over

With a kiss

Many a promise to miss

With scarce borrowed time

 

All things start

Within promises

And die slow

Within breath

Woven with threads of wonder

That run through bright life

 

All that starts

Also has an end

The story

Comes slowly

To a screeching grinding halt

As teeth clench sorrow

 

Gone morrow

Vainly sacrificed

A bet made

Like Dante

Alternate realities

Arrogant belief

 

Vanity lair

Tombstone of the fools

Seen future

Illusion

A game rigged in confusion

Carelessly rolled dice

 

It is done

Lay down the tired head

In cool lands

Where rivers

Speak of the peaceful feeling

Embracing the End

 

Reading of the poem: 

Dante’s Prayer – Loreena McKennitt (Legolas Greenleaf)

Legolas’s Lullaby –  Heather Dale

Aragorn’s sleepsong – Secret Garden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0JiEglvJic