Friday, 22 February 2013

In the Cold of the Night.


I gaze into the still, starry sky
my breathing caught and frozen
in the biting cold of the taciturn night
that presses around me like a glittering,
timeless cloak of uncertainty.
The silver stars seem to appear one by one
like shy creatures creeping from the shadows
of a dark forest. They are travellers in time,
but like pilgrims to a holy shrine,
they leave their mark, their history,
their secret wisdom, their consciousness
seeping into the fabric of creation,
spilling into our loneliness like birds
to a solitary tree, whose branches
like great, strong arms
holding up the universe,
stretch into the vastness of eternity.

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