Showing posts with label hope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hope. Show all posts

31/08/2018

Untrace Your Steps


Untrace your steps
Set down the heavy load
Leave it here, with me now
And I will unwind
The truth to you

Under the lampost, in the shade of the church
Lika a Madonna lost in a dark room
A halo of light falling on your thoughts
Listened to by the quiet stone steps
And echoing in your silent prayer vigil

Do not follow those old ghosts
That keep their cold grip
A mist rising to haunt you
Untrace your steps
Into the new day

Across a crowd, a face you recognised once
Like a mirage burning into the heat of the day
Lost in a maze of bright connections
The call that beats a drum in your blood
Freedom running through the veins

Untrace your steps
And steer a new course
Under the bright star of hope
And you will find
Your heart already knows the way









01/02/2017

Windchimes

I have packed away the wind chimes now
One last song as I walk to the shed
Of old bells and hollow echoes
As long as the winter shadows
Chasing me

Summer is a drift of sepia tinted memories
Caught in the gutters and under pots
As I sweep up those days
A calendar of leaves
Remembering

Now the snow muffles all sound
As it waits out the winter with an icy siege
Slowly numbing the senses
Weighing me down
Into silence

But in my mind a song plays
A breeze of notes in the wind
Warm as a song thrush
In spring sunshine
Wind chimes sing