The Leap

Was it hard

the flip of our fate with a penny

the slit in my pendulum hand

sun, red as this melting 

and the stars that formed this lion 

locked inside his paper cage

The irretrievable virtue

our innocence embraced  

Did you really want this

the calm crescendo played before we ever began 

the sound of rain flowered from your empty bed 

are we nothing but darkness and the cold literature of space

if nothing else, we held the keys to life 

cloth and rend 

and knowing we still bled

I heard the dying in the mountains

the walk we never shared our beads and tongue entwined

I was only a child when I leapt from this window

down into freedom, out into life

caught, of course

and forced to leap again and again until I saw that freedom came with an iron heart

Until I learned that life was the lover's wound

and as we crawled into our being 

salvation bled out the eyes

I stood in n the harshness of your shadow  

shivering day against day

waiting

welcoming the chance

one touch, one taste waiting to end all of me 

with only the word you held with a kiss and the sound of your voice

I longed to hold you as well and ask had you missed me

Reviews

[Andra Dare]

This is beautiful and profound on so many levels. I do not like to over-analyze poems, and it's hard to pick a favorite line in this fabulous piece, but if I could, it might be "are we nothing but darkness and the cold literature of space" Just stunning.

[Perdition]

Sort of ruins the hush of the moment doesn't it? Analyzing an emotion of something sent to end you when you already know it will ...couldn't agree more. Thank you Andra Dare!

[Lisasview]

Oh my how I loved these lines
I heard the dying in the mountains
the walk we never shared our beads and tongue entwined
brought me back to the 70's!!!
Another great line
I stood in n the harshness of your shadow
shivering day against day
I could pick apart every line that I have now read and reread several times but in the end I would say.
This is such a wonderful poem...
Loved it!!!
Lisa, now in Spain

[Perdition]

In the end, I would say you are something else, and then some Lisa...falling into this one was like a call out into a frozen lake that wants to make sense of it and cry out Shame! Shame! SHAME!! That was my girl and there is just no circumventing the passionate nature of that. Every day a new invention, a day a chance into making what God that survives smile at what could have been, just so down at the memory of what was intended...She was mine as I was hers and yet she was not, nor ever should be, she should be happy in her own heart, such is the wonder and confusion of love. ..Deep Sigh and even deeper the loss but love...what more is there? ;)