I am not an island. No-- I am a continent. And you are all my countries here With war and discontent. But peace comes more than war, you see, And trade and exploration Have profited us all in turn Much more than stark invasion. Ambassadors and trumpery Accompany our visits.…
Alas, my friend--the night, It fades with morning light And all we hid behind-- No longer hid from sight. Here comes the change of mind: We leave all else behind; We let the future go, And all the past we bind. And everything we know-- Decisions, undertow-- Become the former…
The glassy sphere, once void, now felt by her, The smallest and least known of all mankind The aimless one, so frightened and unsure Full of scattered thoughts and undefined, She feels, she flies; she grows and tastes the tears Of age and timelessness in voids of glass. You, youngest…
Who put me in your hands? Was it you? Truth speaks like a fire, But when did I lose sight Of all the stars in your palms And the galaxies under your fingernails? Your face unveils The light of nebulae, Glowing like a firefly With all the fire of a…
If you who are the emptiness of space, And galaxies are all yours to command, And all there is of love is in your face, And grace flows down to us out of your hand, Then we are blessed beyond what we have earned, And cannot speak the depth of…
The object and the author of my love Are both the same--and he has all my heart And chooses those my heart may take hold of, And those to whom belongs the smallest part. 'Tis you, the one called love, who loved to death And life again we tired,…
Oh God, forever glorified above, No words remain in any tongue on earth For anything the years have spoken of Since words became a way to measure worth. The years have seen your acts from age to age As they are born and die and you remain Beyond the binds…