So Now You Live

So Now You Live

 

So now you live like a lava rock

& you remember a flow, a rush,

more heat than brains & a hundred

things you might improve

But think nothing of that.

Let it all harden into the cast off,

into the shell you slip out of

At this moment the wind

is singing

At this moment the seas rise

deeply green & lightly blue

All around waits the whisper

of a celebration

I urge you from that crust of earth

where you have hidden

I promise you that the world sparkles

somewhere

even on the worst days

& I have a compass

built for two

It does not point in any direction

It is whirling like a globe

in an earthquake

on a stand.

 

Reviews

[W.k.kortas]

Part exhortation, part sermon, part valediction...this is so tightly constructed, yet it is no academic set piece. It is the perfect early Spring /Easter piece; a clarion call to be reborn and truly live again. Inspirational without being cloying or maudlin, it is a wonderful, wonderful piece of writing.

[Enigma]

Skillfully written.The use of all the similies and metaphor's is great!!!

[Phil Sanders]

You have such a delightful way of writing ....