Poetry list
come sweet death
death has revealed new truths
the final ebb tide has uncovered
my heart and being reforged in
the deepest intimacy of union
giving and receiving of selves
that dissolves in amalgam of hearts
and minds bodies fused in the
ecstasy of oneness a delirium of
being lost and found amidst the
banality of everyday demands and
habits we were one and still
we are one but is this for ever
it sounds possessive but is
realised in sacrifice and loss
everyday buried in the familiar
round and burden of living out
responsibilities and cares of
a life where duty is truly a
springboard into freedom from
the cage of our location and lineage
the journey within is the release
tunnel from earthly fetters open
to all and every but asking the
ultimate to risk beyond all limit
to promise and jump into the
love that has no bounds but is
there in flesh and blood and the
incomprehensible other that lies
in every breath – and touch and
taste and glimpse and sound and
thought and smell – the heart is
formed and the spirit flies as I am
lost in you and we are transported
into the beyond of the divine who
stooped to share to lose and love so
that we might see the truth as we are
loved in grace freed from survival
formed in love and saved by death
come sweet death
© Neil Thompson 2023