Poems
Requiem – A Prayer
To the Divine my soul loves & for a lost friend
The stars are dancing round the pole,
Jewels of the sky in a clear winter’s night.
My candle flickers,
Sending its light over the snow,
Into the utter darkness.
It would be quenched
and I would freeze
In an icy breeze of words,
Wheeling around me
Like flakes of ashes
Stirred up from the cold fireplace of friendship.
If your love didn’t hold my heart
in tender hands,
your breath keeping it warm
rekindling Awen’s flame.
I would be terrified, be on the run,
My soul shrinking away
From loveless, lightless words,
A hideous blasphemy to love and truth
Which echoes through all worlds
Casting deep shadows.
If you didn’t keep me safe,
Enclosing me in a bower made from amber,
My love to you the light illuminating
The bright chamber.
I would be utterly despaired
By witnessing a drowning soul,
Being spectator on the shore,
condemned to idleness
the wind of coldness sweeping
away my words of love,
the darkness of contempt and prejudice
a hindrance to see my outstretched hand.
If your love’s fragrance,
Faintest hint of linden blossoms,
Was not a healing essence
For the garden of my soul
Conjuring up the bouquet of love’s parfumes.
And a small hope
that once upon a time
playing cold winds will carry on this fragrance,
unwillingly,
to form a tiny thread at first
which with your blessing may form ropes of rescue.
Weak hope that once upon a time
friendship will resurrect
hearing the sound of love’s sweet music.
by A. Rüdiger alias N. Merchcoed