FOR BTS

PROLOGUE: YOUNG FOREVER

 

A spangled veil rises, a singing sky

that planted flaming stars

in my eye.

 

Silence rings, now a deviance in sound

my crown of blood once

made sterling.

 

It looks on me, that distant mirror of

moonlit blue infinity, sun-filled,

shadow-rilled.  

 

Forever’s ocean beckons my river of

years; flow meets flow at

the edge of the edge.

 

Eternity touches the earth, the of earth,

with the trembling certainty

of sea reflected in sea.

 

Pain refines faith. Is the artist not time’s

subject? The music’s seeker

is its noblest maker.

 

Go to wonder, to where memories leave,

breathing dream-lit petals

into wintering trees.

 

Unuttered thoughts are light and the air is

a voice that whispers of

coming comfort.

 

Knowing is mystery; questions make whole,

wordlessness illuminates,

lends substance.

 

Young eyes bare timeless tales; they know

the perils of thornless ways.

 

Forever eyes, find peace in the raging storm,

tumult, in safe harbour.

 

© 2022 Lilium Candidum

Lily’s Verse

 

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