in all the Deep of Night
when even stars have gone to bed
Black like the lining of a jewel box after the jewel is gone
Dead Black
no supporting contrast gleam
of diamond
emerald
topaz
ruby
Fathomless Black
the sad outcome of drownings
smotherings
loss of all that was known in Life
that passage that no one has breached on the way back
to let us know what lies Beyond the Dark
so many times I lie and watch you sleep
your chest rising
yes! and yes!
each inhalation a miracle that keeps us joined
for long and long
I hear your muttered dreamings
touch and taste your skin like angel wings
so softly you never know
give thanks each night for the miracle
that came to us both in later times
when cynicism Might have been expected
to dull our knowledge and acceptance of True Love
years unknown to each other
breeze in ghostly tatters
behind a constant testimony
that there were other lives before We Were
some aspects gone and missed
some gone,
not missed at all
it’s Dark
in all the Deep Deep Black of Night
the Starless Hole that swallows Universes beckons
as I pull away and confront the mirror
only to see my Grandmother
Not my Grandmother
but I
so she was
her honey golden skin paled and mottled
russet hair now silvered down and thinner
than once exuberant curls
her youthful ebullience
studied insouciance
weathered to a leathery acceptance
of limits never Dreamed of in her youth
a time when we walked Hard upon the earth
Knowing we were the First people of consequence
to arrive
that we would ever be remembered
as the Healers of Mankind
not having come yet to the conclusion
that the
very Word
Erased
over half
of the species so designed
that, Now, am i
standing at the edge of the Void
still knowing and loving
still thinking and striving
on the border of “going gentle” and Raging
into the Night, the Eternal
where each one’s footsteps go alone
the other side of the Dark
ever Unknown
save only met in Blazing Love
as i have felt with you
the Circle completed
the jewel Dancing Fire
at the core of the Darkness
like Life unending
© 2020 pamela twining
