Darkly hopeless out of sight;
Waiting,
Turning,
Loyal ever
On the echo fringes of the night.
Unseen shadow closing slowly,
Steady on the homeward run;
Ancient,
Youthful,
Never failing,
Sweeping inward; turning to the sun.
Northward there from great Orion,
Gentle, faintly, misty shine;
Stronger,
Brighter,
Sweeping inward;
Dust and ice. And somehow half divine.
Whisper from our first beginnings:
Love is God and God is Love.
Streaming
Homeward;
Hyades and Pleides,
Then Pegassus above.
Far behind the hollow darkness –
Sweep to morning with the sun.
Glowing magic,
Glowing oneness,
To our golden holy lover come.
Screaming pull of blinding forces –
Yawning void beyond the race –
Searing,
Flaring,
Turning faster – – –
Sling shot past the sun to outer space.
Nameless in some lost oblivion,
Darkly hopeless out of sight;
Waiting,
Turning,
Loyal ever
On the echo fringes of the night.
RAE, 31 January 1986
Darkly hopeless out of sight;
Waiting,
Turning,
Loyal ever
On the echo fringes of the night.
Unseen shadow closing slowly,
Steady on the homeward run;
Ancient,
Youthful,
Never failing,
Sweeping inward; turning to the sun.
Northward there from great Orion,
Gentle, faintly, misty shine;
Stronger,
Brighter,
Sweeping inward;
Dust and ice. And somehow half divine.
Whisper from our first beginnings:
Love is God and God is Love.
Streaming
Homeward;
Hyades and Pleides,
Then Pegassus above.
Far behind the hollow darkness –
Sweep to morning with the sun.
Glowing magic,
Glowing oneness,
To our golden holy lover come.
Screaming pull of blinding forces –
Yawning void beyond the race –
Searing,
Flaring,
Turning faster – – –
Sling shot past the sun to outer space.
Nameless in some lost oblivion,
Darkly hopeless out of sight;
Waiting,
Turning,
Loyal ever
On the echo fringes of the night.
RAE, 31 January 1986