Satnam...Grace of God

I'll play sweet music and sing a devotion for you everyday
And I'll forgive myself, in my heart,
If ever I forget.

I'll release your lilac spirit from dark bonds that may hold it
And carry the heaviest load, walk the steepest path, clean the filth of ages,
with joy in every pore,
And I'll forgive myself from the plumb deep of my innermost heart,
should I ever forget.

I'll speak your name with reverence and recall your face with love
I'll play and jump and dance to your memory,
And, if one day, it so happens, I let you slip from mind,
I'll open the profoundest chamber of my heart's heart
and release the winged and dappled unicorn...

And I'll start again.

5 O'Clock Shadow

I don't usually give an explanation of my poems, but this one's a bit abstract. One evening, during my last 10 day silent meditation course, looking over the mountains from my room in Worcester, Western Cape, I saw a shadow cast over the slope that brought this one to mind.


5 O'Clock Shadow

Comic hillside giraffe

Shadow dog

What can you teach me about death?