You Will Know

There will come a time

when you will know and sense this deeply

deeper than the mind will ever let on

farther than the heavens will run

 

a moment when all decisions

dark or glorious

have already been made

 

you will know

you will know

 

the way a river senses the flood before a cloud has even formed

or the bridge gives way and has finally knelt into summer

you will know

 

there will be a freedom on your lips along with the taste of the rising water

a death you have feared since first you came into life

the force from this into your veins conspiring revolution

you will know

 

your life was not meant to grasp the silence from the stones inside the mountain

though that chance will often come 

and the forces from this world will begin to speak and you will hear them smiling

and maybe a butterfly alone will teach you

 

or that first lonely bite into hell

the child alone 

fast asleep and dreaming

 

miles before she drinks your adaptations

and the dream lightly dreaming the life to come

your soul will follow

and you will know it is right

 

Reviews

[lightsong]

this is my most favorite from You I've read so far, the depths of Your words go beyond the lines, Your first verse I read and re read again, astonishing the way You started with! (caught another slip lol change "then" into "than" ).

You wanted to go beyond the boundaries, from how powerfully and profoundly You composed Your opening lines, it's true You've spread Your mind's eyes, Your spirit's wings, larger than life, then... with a gentle sensation, You paint the graces of moments in our lives, those moments that many pass by without noticing, You speak of the power of now, of birth, or renewal, of the wonderment that lives in each moment if we allow ourselves to see, to feel... Your Love that's it in each moment and if She opened her heart and soul, she will know how You love her, like heaven loves earth.

live flowing like a brook through the universe, and fear no death, because death is also a life, a life where You flow too like a warm brook. Your sensitive being is shown here, Your faithful spirit too, some few things I've noticed, but I LOVE it as it is, magnificent!

[Perdition]

Good catch and thank you so much for that. So many words it's hard sometimes to stay in focus when time is your worst enemy and greatest of friends. I have seen that you are also a soul that steps lightly on her affairs and steps with a knowing care . Each dimple your footprints leave require that you return the favor and the land so longs to touch us again. We've been afraid for far to many years now. "Human ..all too human" I suppose. We must sit and stare out over the evening fog and perhaps with a healthy debate, as we agree in time with a small but maintainable fire keeping watch over our communion. Too much agreement in one night is never good for the soul. The night was fashioned with a beast and it keeps a light over our developments so we'll have to honor that as well and disagree over the reasons for grass or perhaps why the moon reflects so despairingly in these autumn nights. Thank you again and again and again. These nights require more walking than reading lately and so I will return to read soon when I can give you my full attention. Till then...Smiles and hugs.

[lightsong]

never worry about returning anything, if You don't/can't read then it means nothing for You to go read my work, to focus on so many words like my review here is very hard sometimes, specially when You are in a certain state, ask me about it... it makes Your eyes and mind hurt, and I'm sorry lol... focus on Yourself right now, only on it, this obviously what You need, You can't safe the whole world, but You do Your part when You "safe" Your own self, to be lost in our thoughts about this world, about these human beings how many are not, to feel fragile, to feel confused and under huge pain is not a bad thing, what matters is how You will come out from this stage, one time after another as You experience it.

all the best for You my dear friend in Your evening's wanderings, and the journey of Your mind and spirit, until then... may I find a big smile shining in Your face :)

Hugs~ Light*

[Dhara_Ditzy Kat]

This poem picks its own path with your words as lamps gently guiding the reader to the realization that most of life's learning and wisdom comes from within self and that external things are mere stimuli to trigger the epiphanies and realizations.

[Perdition]

Love that image..now my words are all going to be lamps..the poems tall overgrown meanderings I take to pass the night and perhaps to find a think or two left in need or suffering from neglect, knowledges that would have died by morning had we not taken this walk ..Thank you Dhara..I promise I will get to your lamps soon..Just never enough time for the better meanderings of life ..Smiles!

[Esther]

Here comes the one, speaking of hope in verses of contradictions, flowing on gently along its course.

[Perdition]

And I will most definitely know ;) How could I not?Thank you yet again Esther..I hope we all find a round table out there someday where all of us, along with these words can read out the cold despair in these beautiful autumn nights, simply spoken to the rest and perhaps to these dreams as well, joined in a perfect field, starless and dove=tailed with wine and candles..the poet's night filled in night.;)

[barleygirl]

This is an awesome originally-stated & uplifting message! You pick many bright & fresh metaphors for all the ways life can manifest for different folks, but each reader will take this in his/her own way. I love the slow meandering pace, punctuated with repeats of your title line, until you finally state the conclusion, which is indisputable truth (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Perdition]

Aww.. when I get the hugs I know I have done something worthy. Thank you Margie. I'd love to be inside the reader's mind as this one came, for one instant I thought I might be in control and then the poem took over...as it so often does. Hugs Back!