Hound of Heaven Hymns

Poetry list

the other

birth and death are one
one follows inevitably after
the other the simple truth
leaves us with the interim
and its meaning what
matters quantity quality
endurance meaning it is
far from simple and the
answer lies outside of us
even if we don’t want to
dare to know so there is
another always another the
immensity of galaxies and
inconceivable time cannot
render us alone and without
meaning there is more than
matter maths and existence
there is an abundance of life
bursting into the nano
second and lifting us into
eternity dare we let it
take us raise us up make
us irrelevant to our own
maps of aspiration and be
seized by the transcendence
that invades each moment
and particle with purpose
we are stopped only by self–
importance and fear both
cancelled by love and relationship
relativity is compromise to
all being provisionality will
end but the present moment
unfettered by the dying past
and unborn future is birth
and death waiting for the
claim capture and catastrophe
of being yours not
mine