“Saint Peppin’s speech”

Timbre breaks
Last remains of day
Dawn is ever keeping
As trumpet’s blast
And drums crash
Light escapes---ever keeping
Ever shining
Eternal
Today.

For seven years
Or fifty foretold
Time crept ----unknown---
As Light travels faster
In Darkness he fled
Down to ground----again---and again
Dawns still
Ever keeping.

She stands weeps
Fairest maiden of all
Too soon---mercy to be taken
And acorns fell
To trod on soil
A little dirt between the toes never hurt.

And I thought of you-------------
Lovely --- beautiful child----
As we danced away-----away----
Away--------------------…………….
Fear ran
Transformed
For a time
Renewed to see your face-----again.
I fell in love with you
You never knew
For a time I thought-------
It would be.
Yet one day old----
A smile went away
Astray
His heart filled
And darkness fell
And darkness fell
To soon ------one day-----too soon.

Hope kept
VIGIL-----at last
Weeps strong-----for you once again
Weeps strong -----for you once again.

To see wee Three
Or six on knee
I gave at last
So long-----long ago.
CHALLENGE THEM.
He said to me-----today-----tomorrow
CHALLENGE THEM
POINT THEM-----to ME.

STRIVE FOR LIFE
Today----
Each day
STRIVE
For sake not the beginning
At Day’s length
Darkness fell
As hearts were quickened
DAY enlightening every day
Every day.

March forth to gates
Unfettered with gold
Toward rocks and shoals
Puppy dog tails
Cats whisper--------
I found you again
At start---going forward
Can not see-----
It is not taken away
----or to be-----
Love’s threshold within
This day-------love’s threshold within.

Nights end
To come back again
Mercy ever the quicker
To wait------no shame
But only enflamed.