Life after : the cruellest winter

Fire burns here

Seeking life

Hoping for liberation

From the darkest of nights

While over there

Deeply entrenched in another war

You long for me with the same passion

But something in this tangled world

Is setting up blocks to our union

And so what else is left

But to send messages of love and longing

Heart to heart

Until it feels as though

We will burn up with the fire

If anger rains down my love

Don’t you see

It is only birthed by this all too familiar sense

Of impotent rage I feel

In the face of a world gone deaf dumb and blind

To what truly matters

If I have to wait I will

Are we battling with God

And universal timing?

Is this just the moment to surrender

To lay down our swords and stop the fight

Or is this the time to be like water

That will not stop at nothing

Until it finds a way through those barricades

Meanwhile this fire burns

As I make a vessel of my body

Seeking air and light

Hope and life

Holding on to a fragile thread

Struggling to breathe

Inside all the awareness

Of a life that seems to have been

Almost entirely spent merely existing

In the deepest, darkest

And most cruel of winters