Three Clouds Medly

Three Clouds Medley[1]

 

“Everyone Has Inside of Them a Piece of Good News.”

 

-Anne Frank

 

 

-THE SLANDER-

 

I crossed a line

Drawn in my mind,

Then stumbled to me knees

For in the sky came passing by

Three clouds in weightless ease

 

And I began to tremble

At what next that I saw there:

 

A band of restive angels

Hung like slanders in the air

 

And in my shame, I looked away;

Then, I began to cry,

 

For in their seeming, I did sense

That I was born to die.

 

-THE CHARM-

 

A heart adrift on some dark city street
Is like a truth that grieves in stark defeat

Among the shadows, with a lowered brim -

Oh, surely, what is prescient painted him!

 

He would not hold a glance, but seems to stare,
As children do when we are unaware;

Yet he is merely filling up a space
In which the artist shows

His hidden face.

 

-THE COUP DE GRACE-

 

A darling died, as if on cue,

As darlings often come to do

She left a daybook in her room

For him to read amid the gloom

Then fainted, falling from a stair

And got an answer to her prayer

For time discovered in her brain,

A tumor time could not contain.

 

-THE LOGOS-

 

I do not suffer tender thoughts

When gloom obscures my sight
Or fear unmans me like a ghoul

That looks to vanquish light

 

No! only when the roses bloom, and only in the sun,
Do I think on a loving deed that could in love be done
I only ponder what is good, when in my thoughts I keep
My promise to a loving God that love shall never weep.