Endgame
ENDGAME or BEYOND DREAMS
Watch shadows rise and fall,
seek between and all that’s behind,
relax contours of informed mind;
wander, trespass, feel your way
through mists of pink 'n' grey - behold,
all fond reason left untold
Caress young visions huge moons
have kissed, meander pathways
time never missed, only you, dear fool,
who thought you knew it all
Now gloom, now glow, as dawn's
blade strikes a bowed crown,
as if, in due time, freeing mind-body-spirit
to slip slowly d
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Copyright R. N. Taber, 1970; rev. 2015
[Note: A very early poem; it first
appears under the title In Free Fall in Love and
Human Remains by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2001.]
Labels: culture, death, human nature, human spirit, identity, life, love, memories, mind-body-spirit, nature, personal space, posthumous consciousness, religion, society