what you didn't remember

 Silver thoughts roll to the ground

And shatter, each with muted sound,

Beyond your reach but in your eyes

They fall, they flutter, laugh and fly.

Soft remembrance, new creation,

The second look at your surroundings

Captured your wild heart by laughter

And by solemn promises.

Cup a draught of starlit sky,

Hold it tight, fling it high,

Travel with it through the forests

                                                              To the higher mountain air.

Long have you been here;

Long will you stay-

The most strange, glowing thing

Is to fall in love late.

This hour that is fading

Has triggered your soul

Golden light streams through windows

You are lost and unwhole

This heart sways divided

This love is a war

Heal what lies dying

Breathe into the coals. 

Your heart feels no shifting

Your heart lost wise fear

Your heart is a castle

You are frozen years

How is stone melting

How can death fear?

The castle is pulsing

With flesh and with ears

That hear sharp words cutting

But lose sharper thorns

Of floating and drifting-

To promises, born.

Your faithfulness stuns me

I can't understand

How you choose the faithless

With love that demands

Dead things to falter

And strong things to crack

Cold blood to tremble

And black hearts to ask

Return with your love, God

Return with your words

You make me feel shifting

This heart shakes in fear

                                                              The dead leaves are stirring
                                                              A wind gives them breath,

Their blood is returning

Their fists are unclenched

                                                            The stone heart weighs nothing,

This blackness feels light-

The light makes strong promise,

And measures the night. 

  

You wake up in freedom,

Crowning and green;

Through brume dawn is streaming-

This God wants to heal.

You'll hunt out His freedom

You'll sing for His voice

You know His strong drawing

He's given Himself

Long may you hunger,

Long may you thirst,

The most heart-morphing truth

Is to have been loved first.