SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW
I came to life in the sunlight of your love,
My heart was full
and embraced the dance of life,
Now you have gone
And I have the memory
of the sunlight that dwelt beside me
And the knowledge
of living in the darkness
of its shadow.
WHY NOT TO STAY?
Why do I die
and why do I live?
Why have you left me,
and why did you give,
The sunlight of yellow
that ended the dawn,
And the nightmare that followed
after you’d gone?
So, why did you brighten
my colors of gray?
And why did you come
if it wasn’t to stay?
But why else was I made
if not for your coming’
And why else should I die
if not for your going?
HOPELESS YEARNING
What is there but to suffer,
to draw every muscle tight?
What is there but, having soared to fall,
to feel life slip quietly out of sight?
What is there but to remember,
the fulfilment so joyous and complete?
What is there but to yearn
for its now impossible return?
What is there but to forget,
to be freed from gnawing pain?
What is there but to regret
that memory fading can’t be there again?
What is there but to suffer
aboard this earthly train?
What is there but to long
to be born in fire and joy again?