For You Who Grieve Tonight: Poem

For You Who Grieve Tonight

The day was long, the night will be endless
Emotionally spent the tears won’t come
Its just the heart that continues to beat
The soul has nothing more to eat.

But ashes; dust and ashes
Diamonds in the dust it may well be
Grief is an absolute entity
And living another form of tyranny.

Speak of life and death, the details
Of what lies between birth and extinction
Rationality irks, cannot comfort the loss
Highflown theories until complete cessation.

For those who grieve tonight, the pain
Almost too intense to bear:
Hearing, seeing, feeling their loss
And nobody, nobody with whom to share.

The tears should come, do not check their flow
Tears can heal like a gentle loving hand
Calm the mind, ease the heart and
There is a lifetime ahead to understand.

Softly words will come
Someday grief will go
Forget the logical mind
Leave reason behind.

Copyright: Rani Turton

Nets And Knots:Poem

Nets And Knots

Nets and knots, knots and nets.

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Away from the shore, away from land

Into the mist and sea

Living, living and trying to be.

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I am not a knot in a net.

A knot I am not.

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But, yet all I saught

Taught me naught.

Life was a lesson, a reason

A long way have I come.

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Nets and knots

Knots and nets.

Away from what I wanted to be;

Just fishing on a lonely blue sea.

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Copyright: Rani Turton