Myself

for dVerse and The Honeybee

and Magpie Tale 241

Looking back

I see You

And yet –

Looking forward

You cannot see me

What would I say

To You, Myself?

When You cannot hear?

What advice should I give

To the tunnel

You must grope through?

Which from My end

Is lit

But from Yours

Is Dark all through?

Or what advice would I, Myself

Give – If I could stand farther

And Look back again?

What warning, what guide?

To what stay true?

Or would You speak to Me

I think I know Your worry

Never fear

I have kept My Essence

And Looking forward from here

Through the mist

Though Myself I cannot see

That Essence I see still

Delayed

for dVerse

When the typhoon raged

And sent sheets of rain and wind

Howling and crashing through the streets

The hotel was quiet inside

Expect for the ringing of the phone

“The flight’s canceled,”

Quenching the flame of excitement

We had dreamed of for over a year

Home was only an ocean away

Five days of waiting

Not sadly – this place was our home too –

But there were ashes on the flame

We seemed to forget

That ocean was crossable

Until the fourth day we remembered

That home was a possibility

And ghost flames of excitement rose

Yet when the airplane took flight

It still seemed a dream

Until I heard my own language

And your voice on the phone

Then saw you waiting for me

When I came home

The Charioteer

for The Honeybee

The sun rides far

like a chariot in the sky

pulled by gleaming horses

and the charioteer sees all

I rode with him once

sight seeing tourist

everything below us so small

the world seemed

a child’s blanket

spread out to make a map

I felt very grand

Until the charioteer turned the horses

away from the haunts of man

he had a secret smile

he knew more than I

at the world’s end he tied his horses

their manes streamed gold

then quiet purple in the wind

and the sea mist rose up

ocean waves crashed

the cliff was bare white

and dizzyingly steep

and then I knew insignificance

the world was grand

and I was small

the charioteer knew all along

I think I’ll ride with him again