Earth bound

“The greatest test of courage on the earth

is to bear defeat without losing heart.”

R. G. Ingersoll

Take my breath

Remind me how it feels to live

Without tenderness

Here within a world of those

Whose hearts froze

For the want of it

Wake my heart

From this broken dream

Remind me how it feels

When all of my energy leaves

When I am drawn to those

Deathly places

For my body feels it all

And it recoils from the ice of life

Here within the unthawing

Is the awakening

And the rose whose petals

Fall

Still knows the taste of summer

Even as it surrenders

Those petals

To the ground

For God knows

There may be life still to be found

In what is dying

When we surrender the flying

And submit our weary

Souls to becoming for a time

Earth bound