Skip to main content

O Time

Today I present the second of my poems dedicated to the abstract. 


Both time and beauty are in the eye of the beholderO Time

What do you have in store for me, O Muse?
I am so afeared that you hold nothing.
If time holds nought, life and love are empty
And to an end I’m endlessly running.

And if the clock’s hands offer only want,
Despair, discord and denial for me,
To what end was I born and then shall die?
For life is to love and to love is to be.

If eyes stare upwards, then feet may fall.
And if hearts sink downwards, their minds will fail.
Neither can hearts look up and eyes look down,
For his own eyes and heart are my own’s dale.

O Time, you tax both man’s wits and his strength
And e’en the love of his heart you besiege
And your hands pull him towards death’s dark face -
Who is love’s friendly foe and your dark liege.

Now ‘neath the cold winter’s sun I wander,
My heart and my resolve being pulled asunder,
Shall I ne’er love’s tow’ring pinnacle climb?
Will you prey on my joy always, O Time?

                                                To Knowledge

Please read and review!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Rebuild and forgive

This is the sermon I delivered after a week of violent protests in my home town of Stutterheim, South Africa O God, sovereign over all, your overflow of life pours into everything and streams in fullness back to you. May I speak in Your Name a message of hope and peace. Amen. God certainly does have a sense of humour. Just look at our readings today! It was as if He wrote them down exactly for us in Stutterheim and for exactly this time. When you listen to these readings you get an immediate sense of the weight of God’s Word and power; you get an idea of how involved in our lives He really is. It is as if the Job reading is saying, “ Who can count the clouds? I can, people of Stutterheim. I am your God and I can count the clouds of smoke billowing from your town. Why do you fear?” Yes, God has a sense of humour, because he is God and knows all things that have been, that are and will be. Why else would we get a message like this today? Job had lost everything. His childre...
Post a Comment
Read more

First thoughts in verse

For my first post, I wish to share the first of three poems  addressed to three abstract entities. Last year I lost my Gran and this poem is written in honour of her. I hope it can provide solace to anyone else who has suffered at death’s hand. O Death O thou cold and yet still caring death Thou which wert and art and yet shall be Thou which scornest both my tears and wreath Yet liveth not to see thy vict’ry. Thou hast taken that which none may give again Thou hast marred the plane of my very soul: Whence comest thou to show nought by disdain? I quail in thy dark vale through which I stole. Lost, lost is all the world for she is gone on Into that realm of void imagination Ne’er to see, nor speak, nor hear my orison Nor e’er to quicken from that black stagnation. But be thou still near me, her place to hold Be thou in candles, in sights and in songs In my heart’s stirrings, be the taintless gold Of the horizon which for the sun longs. ...
Post a Comment
Read more