Thursday, June 11, 2009

NO FEAR OF THE PAIN

I never knew I could love you so much.
In learning to know the feel of your soul
I find it's tender but bold, free but yet old
As wise as the sea and enveloping me
With its grasp and its tugs
Like one of your hugs.

I try to hold in what bursts from within
With logic and searching for signs of a fall
But near shore, the sharp edges of lime
That have ripped up my heart time after time
Flashing in my sight
Through breaking surf and moonlight
Can't force to mind enough fear of the pain
To keep the golden-silk butterfly entangled in chains
And not free to give, its reason to live.

(1986/SCA)