GRACE & DIGNITY

GRACE & DIGNITY

Let me carry out this sentence with grace

Tend the land under your feet

Do the work in your eyes

Play with the words in your hands.

If I should be burdened

Let me hold it with dignity

Hold it together.

And I shall show this love in deed.

Let me scour this broken wasteland uninterrupted

Applaud such a young feat

Show my working to your y and x

Keep the certainties un-played

Only when the mirror is clean

Will I see behind me

Let not another’s thought decide/define me

I have the right to write.

Keep me lost in my work

In such harrowed times.

Let us grow closer

Where the tracks divide

Should old interference be forgot.

(De-centred dissenter in my descent)

So fast the tunnel –

The hill in decline

The poets of white noise

Get deeper in mind

Stolen from my own reference library

Lay like snow on the ground

                                               I too drift.

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December 2011