Dale Farm.

Link to video and story about Dale Farm.

Careless Words.

Careless Words.

They talk about them
like they are not there
they talk about them
like they do not hear
they talk about them
with a wink and a nod
as though everyone agrees
and everyone knows what they mean
when they say "traveller"

They make grandiose statements
career ending statements
hounded out of public office statements
if they made them about any other group
any other group in the world
apart from "travellers"

They would gladly load the cattle trucks
all that's lacking is a law
all that's lacking is the paper work
the corporate abdication of personal responsibility
and the police would obey the law
and the army would obey the law
they could muster an Einsatzgruppen in a day

And if you stand perfectly still
in this slip of the lip
you can feel humanity slip
you can feel the Earth slip
toward oblivion.

What is said about and the treatment of the marginalized
is the thin end of the wedge and people need to consider this.

"But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned."
Matthew 12

Robert Burns.

Man Was Made To Mourn

When chill November's surly blast
Made fields and forests bare,
One ev'ning, as I wander'd forth
Along the banks of Ayr,
I spied a man, whose aged step
Seem'd weary, worn with care;
His face was furrow'd o'er with years,
And hoary was his hair.

"Young stranger, whither wand'rest thou?"
Began the rev'rend sage;
"Does thirst of wealth thy step constrain,
Or youthful pleasure's rage?
Or haply, prest with cares and woes,
Too soon thou hast began
To wander forth, with me to mourn
The miseries of man.

"The sun that overhangs yon moors,
Out-spreading far and wide,
Where hundreds labour to support
A haughty lordling's pride; -
I've seen yon weary winter-sun
Twice forty times return;
And ev'ry time has added proofs,
That man was made to mourn.

"O man! while in thy early years,
How prodigal of time!
Mis-spending all thy precious hours-
Thy glorious, youthful prime!
Alternate follies take the sway;
Licentious passions burn;
Which tenfold force gives Nature's law.
That man was made to mourn.

"Look not alone on youthful prime,
Or manhood's active might;
Man then is useful to his kind,
Supported in his right:
But see him on the edge of life,
With cares and sorrows worn;
Then Age and Want - oh! ill-match'd pair -
Shew man was made to mourn.

"A few seem favourites of fate,
In pleasure's lap carest;
Yet, think not all the rich and great
Are likewise truly blest:
But oh! what crowds in ev'ry land,
All wretched and forlorn,
Thro' weary life this lesson learn,
That man was made to mourn.

"Many and sharp the num'rous ills
Inwoven with our frame!
More pointed still we make ourselves,
Regret, remorse, and shame!
And man, whose heav'n-erected face
The smiles of love adorn, -
Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!

"See yonder poor, o'erlabour'd wight,
So abject, mean, and vile,
Who begs a brother of the earth
To give him leave to toil;
And see his lordly fellow-worm
The poor petition spurn,
Unmindful, tho' a weeping wife
And helpless offspring mourn.

"If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave,
By Nature's law design'd,
Why was an independent wish
E'er planted in my mind?
If not, why am I subject to
His cruelty, or scorn?
Or why has man the will and pow'r
To make his fellow mourn?

"Yet, let not this too much, my son,
Disturb thy youthful breast:
This partial view of human-kind
Is surely not the last!
The poor, oppressed, honest man
Had never, sure, been born,
Had there not been some recompense
To comfort those that mourn!

"O Death! the poor man's dearest friend,
The kindest and the best!
Welcome the hour my aged limbs
Are laid with thee at rest!
The great, the wealthy fear thy blow
From pomp and pleasure torn;
But, oh! a blest relief for those
That weary-laden mourn!"

The Gift.

The Gift.

Yesterday morning
I opened my blind
and looked out from a different window
I was standing in the window
of the empty flat across the street
looking back at myself
I was holding up the lid of a shoe box
with these words written on it
"New Shoes"
Someone else was in the room
they came to the window
and looking over smiled at me
he looked like Kurt Cobain

I decided to do four things
leave the blind open
put up a washing line
wash my clothes
and tidy my flat

This morning
I opened the blind
and looked out from my window
A woman was moving into the flat across the street
I went over and helped her with her things
it wasn't difficult

Sitting on the steps drinking coffee
she said to me
"I don't care what I have
as long as I have peace"

I replied

"You know you're asking a lot"

"I know" she said
"But at least I've made a beginning"

"Well you've come to right place
this is the street of new beginnings"

"Hurt" she said
"Is like an opening in the soul
it can be a matter of windows
from one window it looks like a pit
but from another window
it can look like the ground
has been dug out and prepared
prepared for the foundation
of a new beginning

To this I replied

"In my flat I have a sofa bed
I never use it in fact it's just in the way
I'd be grateful if you'd take it off my hands"

"I'll pay you for it" she replied

"Only if you pay me what I gave for it
I got it as a gift'
it's not much to look at
but it's comfortable and practical"

"Comfortable and practical'
sounds just what I need"
she said, slipping off her shoes
and then she said
"Look at my feet'
they look like two victims of trying to fit in
both carrying the marks of the past
I swear if I have to go barefoot
I'll never wear these shoes again"

"I doubt if you'll have to if you're willing to go barefoot"

She looks at me "I'm also willing to get new shoes"

"I know the very place"

"I believe you do and you can take that as a compliment
because right now that is one of the few things I do believe"

"Compliments, that is something I'm not used to"

"Well here is something for you to believe
you haven't missed much"

I looked into the face
of this world weary woman
and could see the eyes
of a hurt little girl welling up with tears
I struggled for something to say
and then realized I didn't have to say anything.

The Abyss.

The Abyss.

This is my personal
Event Horizon
standing at the edge
looking down into the Abyss
A young Mother
holds up her child
her face an anguished plea for help
slipping back and disappearing
within a singular convergence
of myriad images

As much as I want to
I know that following her
will not help her
I stretch out my arms
and lean forward

It's a bracing Spring morning
and I'm walking a dog
the dog seems to know where it's going
we come to a house
I put my hand in my pocket
take out a key and open the door
the dog bounds along the hall
I follow it into the kitchen
A young woman is standing at the cooker
she is making breakfast
I put my hands around her waist
and kiss her on the neck

I'm sitting on a chair
in a large stark room
a man is sitting on a chair facing me
he is writing into a folder on his lap
He stares at me for an age
as though he is staring through me
then he says "Are you going to talk today?"
he then looks down and continues writing

I'm sitting propped up in bed
an old man is in a bed facing me
he is eating bread and soup
I have to look away
A woman walks up to my bed
with one hand she is carrying a chair
and in her other hand she has a book
She sits down and begins to read to me
her voice has a kindness about it
and I'm glad to listen to her
She gets to these lines
"Whose woods these are I think I know
his house is in the village though"
and I hear someone screaming
screaming and screaming
people are fussing around my bed
for a moment I think it is me.

I'm sitting on a bench in a large garden
it's much too tidy for me
everything is in order and in it's place
the grass is institutionally cropped
I like the tall grass
I like to see the tall grass in the Summer
untouched except by the earth and the sun
by the breeze and by the rain.
A man walks up to me he is leading a dog
the dog is all over me
jumping on me and licking me
I become agitated and push it away
A family spread out a blanket in front of me
and sit down to have a picnic
they ask me to join them
they give me food and a cup of tea
and then they want to play a game
they will all tell me their names
and then it will be my turn to tell them my name
As I watch them drive away
I wonder if I will ever see them again

I'm sitting on a chair looking down at my feet
I have my walking boots on they are covered in mud
I hear someone saying "Are you going to talk today"
I look up the room is full of people hundreds of people
every face is fixed on me many of them grotesque
I realize this is my one chance
jump up from the chair and leap over then
landing in a heap in an open circle in the midst of them
Sitting beside me on the floor
is the young woman and her child

I put my arms around them and say
"I have found you I have come to you"
The young woman says to me
"You have not come to me but I have come to you
to appeal to you to unburden your heart
you are not God to bear such a weight of grief
lay down your burden at His feet
and find comfort for your soul
God is not God of the dead but God of the living
God is life and all are alive to Him
Awaken to this truth
find trust in this assurance of hope"

I open my eyes
a nurse is standing at the foot of my bed
She is reading my chart
I sit up and say to her
"Could you tell the doctor I'm going to talk today"
She looks startled and hurries away

I get up and walk around the ward
some of the people look very ill
I go over to the window and look out
it's snowing.

The Greatcoat

The Greatcoat

 There is a big blue overcoat lying on the lawn Jonathan placed it there for Jane to sit upon before he was urgently called away Jonathan did not forget his coat but Jane has forgotten it just as she has forgotten Jonathan Everyone knows he loves her even the boy I have sent to fetch his coat I wanted to tell him but how could I say "Jane is a flirt" to a parting friend Johnathan tonight You play Wars game of chance Jane tonight You will laugh and dance And everyone will notice you and every man will flirt with you and everyone will love you and every woman will hate you I alone will not notice you and you will not flirt with me not even one unguarded glance until I retire to wait for you.

Celia

in our lives in this world
not everything that happens has an order or a purpose

within the lost gaps inexplicable tragedies befall us
and we cannot even begin to ask why because there is no why

we need order we need purpose we expect it we depend upon it
when the structures fail we seek answers but there is no answer

in our lives in this world
there is a palpable forfeiture of order and of purpose

within the lost gaps there is no will there is no why there is no reason

Our Lily.

Fear of the inexplicable.



But fear of the inexplicable has not alone impoverished
the existence of the individual; the relationship between
one human being and another has also been cramped by it,
as though it had been lifted out of the riverbed of
endless possibilities and set down in a fallow spot on the
bank, to which nothing happens. For it is not inertia alone
that is responsible for human relationships repeating
themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and
unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new,unforeseeable
experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope.

But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes
nothing, not even the most enigmatical, will live the relation
to another as something alive and will himself draw exhaustively
from his own existence. For if we think of this existence of
the individual as a larger or smaller room, it appears evident
that most people learn to know only a corner of their room, a
place by the window, a strip of floor on which they walk up and
down. Thus they have a certain security. And yet that dangerous
insecurity is so much more human which drives the prisoners in
Poe's stories to feel out the shapes of their horrible dungeons
and not be strangers to the unspeakable terror of their abode.

We, however, are not prisoners. No traps or snares are set about
us, and there is nothing which should intimidate or worry us.
We are set down in life as in the element to which we best
correspond, and over and above this we have through thousands of
years of accommodation become so like this life, that when we
hold still we are, through a happy mimicry,scarcely to be
distinguished from all that surrounds us. We have no reason to
mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors,
they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abuses belong to us;
are dangers at hand, we must try to love them. And if only we
arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us
that we must always hold to the difficult, then that which now
still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust
and find most faithful. How should we be able to forget those
ancient myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into
princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses
who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps
everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless
that wants help from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke.

After Glastonbury.

Christian Convention Last Day.

community leaders’ praise for religious convention
Travellers’ gathering seen as a success

By calum ross

Published: 23/07/2010 Press and Journal.

A religious convention for travelling people in Aberdeen has been hailed a success by community leaders and the event’s organisers.

About 150 travellers are expected to start leaving Calder Park today as a week-long Christian gathering comes to an end.

Grampian Police, which has had a mobile unit stationed at the site since the weekend, said no incidents had been reported by last night.

Nigg Community Council chairman Alan Strachan had been outraged when details of the event emerged last week, but said yesterday he was “delighted” with the way it had been managed.

The convention was organised by the evangelical Light and Life Missions church.

Asked if there had been any problems, senior pastor Jackie Boyd said: “A bit with the weather but that’s about it, and that is our boss’s fault.

“It has been a really, really good time.

“I didn’t know there had been a bad relationship up here but what can be better than people seeing that not everyone is going to steal your daughters and children.

“The locals have been very good. If you invite them down and people are open enough to come to our meetings then you will see you can’t judge everyone.”

Mr Boyd did not rule out a return to the city, but said they would not be back next year.

“We don’t have them in the same place every year. We try to move them around,” he said.

Aberdeen City Council heard that an unofficial gathering was being planned for Nigg Bay earlier this month and asked its organisers to move the event to Calder Park.

Local authority environmental health officers have visited the site this week and found no problems.

Mr Strachan praised the handling of the event.

“As far as I am led to believe there have been no problems whatsoever,” he said.

Incandescent.

A DECISION to allow up to 1,000 travelling people and gypsies to gather on the outskirts of one of Scotland's major cities for a religious convention has sparked a furious outcry.

Travellers from all over Scotland are expected to arrive in Aberdeen this weekend for the start of a five-day "outreach mission" being organised by Light and Life, the "gypsy church".

The organisers have been granted permission to camp at the council-owned Calder Park on the southern outskirts of the city.

But the decision by Sue Bruce, the council's chief executive, to give the convention the go-ahead without consulting councillors and the local community was condemned yesterday.

Labour councillor Neil Cooney, one of three councillors for the Kincorth and Loirston ward, said: "To say I am angry is an understatement. I am incandescent. I was never consulted and nor were the local community. The first they knew this was happening was when they were told on Tuesday night by the local police liaison officer.

"They were told it was the only way to control the situation, otherwise there would be encampments all around the city."

The North-east of Scotland has already been at the centre of a series of disputes involving illegal traveller encampments in recent weeks which have affected local residents in Stonehaven and at Loirston Loch, Queen's Links and Dyce in Aberdeen.

"Something of this importance should have gone to a council committee," said councillor Cooney. "Even if you want to run a gala day you have to go through a massive paper trail to get the go-ahead."

Alan Strachan, the chairman of Nigg Community Council, said: "We are disgusted and appalled that this is taking place. I had no idea about this at all until the police liaison officer arrived on my doorstep to tell me. I was told there could be as many as 1,000 travellers."

A spokesman for the city council confirmed that the decision had been taken by the chief executive.

He said: "The decision was taken by her because this unfolded really quickly and we had to act.""

The spokesman added: "The figure of 1,000 people attending the convention is the very top-end estimate. It is more likely to be few hundred."

Shane Lee, a minister with the Light and Life church, told The Scotsman: "It is only a small mission. We have organised toilets and arranged for all the litter to be picked up daily and for the field to be left in the condition that we find it."

He added: "We are trying to preach the gospel to everybody. In our churches we have gypsy people and non-gypsy people. We are trying to preach the gospel and get the people saved.

"We are hoping for successful event and a successful event for us is if people get saved and get delivered from drink or drugs or whatever the case may be.
We want the people to understand that there is a better way."

The Light and Life Gypsy Church tours Britain preaching the Gospel to Gypsies and travellers.

The church was born out of a post-war Gospel revival in Europe and came to prominence in the UK in the 1980s.

There is a network of around 30 churches throughout Britain including three in Scotland located in Montrose, Edinburgh and Cauldercrux in Airdrie.

Worshippers claim the established churches in the UK have yet to attract the Traveller community partly because of the deprecation of their culture coupled with a lack of outreach concern.

Frank Urquart.
Scotsman.com.

Hope.

I have more hope in my heart than there is water in Loch Ness.

Loch Ness contains more water than all of the lakes and rivers in England and Wales combined. It also has a greater volume of water than any other Scottish Loch.

Christian Convention Aberdeen.

Published: 16/07/2010.

A senior Aberdeen councillor has defended the local authority’s handling of plans for a major gathering of travelling people which has provoked anger across the city.

Up to 1,000 travellers are expected to arrive at the city’s Calder Park for a five-day religious convention to be held next week.

It is believed to have been organised by the Montrose and Mastrick branches of a travellers’ church called the Life and Light Missions.

Former council leader Kate Dean, who represents the area and lives nearby, was one of the few elected members to be told about the event before the details emerged on Wednesday.

She said that the organisers of the Christian gathering did not ask for the council’s permission, but officials had decided to take control and manage the event after being informed late last week.

“From what I understand the organisers hadn’t contacted the council, the council has had to take the initiative,” she said.

“If you find something like this happening and have the chance to manage it, then that is better.”

An unauthorised event was originally planned for Nigg Bay but council officials asked for it to be moved to Calder Park.

Mrs Dean found out by chance last Friday after she phoned the council’s traveller liaison officer to alert her to an illegal encampment in Nigg.

She was told it was a “suggestion” that would be taken to the authority’s chief executive, Sue Bruce.

“I said that, given the circumstances, I would not raise an objection,” the Kincorth and Loirston councillor said.

“To me it seemed better to have them in one place where they could be policed"

“I understand the various groups of travellers in the city are going to gather there.

“I do understand the community’s concerns but we have had various undertakings from the council and police.”

Mrs Bruce has written to councillors to “apologise” for not informing them about the gathering before it was revealed exclusively in yesterday’s Press and Journal, and to clarify the chain of events.

Meanwhile, the Church of Scotland minister in Mastrick has distanced herself from the event, after an advertisement flyer said it was being held “on behalf of Mastrick Church”.

The Rev Lesley Risby said: “When you see ‘Mastrick Church’ on a flyer the assumption is that it’s Mastrick Parish Church of Scotland.

“Nobody from Life and Light Missions contacted the minister of Mastrick Parish Church about the event.

“It has never had, nor will it ever have, anything to do with Mastrick Parish Church. We do not support this event.”

Life and Light Missions is believed to have a base in Cairnwell Place, Mastrick, but the group could not be contacted yesterday.

Travellers have already started arriving at Calder Park in advance of next week’s event.

About 10 caravans were at the site last night, with dozens more expected to arrive over the next three days.

Published: 17/07/2010.

Pastor pledges travellers’ religious gathering will be trouble-free
church elder ‘shocked and surprised’ by furore plans have caused

GROWING CROWD: Travellers arrive at Calder Park for the Light and Life Missions convention.

A pastor organising a religious convention for hundreds of travelling people in Aberdeen pledged last night that it would be trouble-free.

Jackie Boyd, an elder from the Light and Life Missions church, said the group was only coming to the north-east to preach the gospel.

He said he had been “shocked and surprised” by the furore plans for the five-day event have caused – and he only expected about 150 people to arrive at the city’s Calder Park.

Police initially told community leaders in Nigg that up to 1,000 people were due to congregate at the park, prompting an angry response throughout the south of the city.

Aberdeen City Council said last night it now expected between 50-70 caravans to arrive over the weekend for the Christian gathering.

Mr Boyd said: “We haven’t come for trouble – we’ve come to preach the gospel.

“The marquee we have sits 150 people. Some come in caravans on their own, some come with two or three.

“We work in 47 countries around the world – we do not expect trouble. If there has been trouble with other groups then that’s nothing to do with us. I am shocked and surprised to see such furore about people coming to preach the gospel.”

He added that the church had its own security and that it had been hosting similar events for 50 years.

Local residents have also been invited to attend the daily gospel meetings, after Mr Boyd said the event was not just for travellers.

Nigg Community Council chairman Alan Strachan was outraged when he was told about the event earlier this week.

He said last night: “A thousand travellers were expected for the week, that’s what I was told.

“Even if it was 100 caravans that is less than half that amount.

“We will just have to play it by ear. It is very unclear how many people are coming.”

A mobile police unit is to be stationed at Calder Park next week, while officers from the local authority’s environmental health team will also attend, although Light and Life Missions has promised to clean up the site after the event.

It has been scheduled to run from Monday to Friday.

A council spokesman said: “The current situation is that there are eight caravans at Calder Park. We are expecting a further 17 by tomorrow morning. The latest estimate is that we are expecting between 50 and 70 caravans in total, however that could change.”

By Calum Ross.

One of the comments on this Press and Journal story:

Let us all good citizens dump our asbestos, PCB's and garden waste at Calder Park.
Then blame the travellers for the mess
Fiona Cooper.

This is one of many vitriolic comments.
If the word Traveller was replaced with the word Pakistani
then there would be no such comments alowed in the Press and Journal
and any information regarding those who made them would be
handed over to the Police.

A positive comment:

No Dorothy, I think the residents of Aberdeen are missing the point here!!! These are not travellers who are working in the area, or here to cause any harm or disruption to Aberdeen. This is an organised event to which they have been given permission to hold their religious convention. I have worked for Acc for may years and I can assure you that I know what I am speaking about. We are not speaking of unauthorised encampents, this is an organised event. I just wonder if the residents of Cove would be holding such a fuss if it was anything else than a Traveller event. On that note this event is open to all, it is not purely for travellers so please feel free to come along, and may I also stress that I am also a resident of Cove, in fact I live practicaly across the road and as a resident I have no problem with this event taking place. I have more of a problem with the youths that are walking the street of Cove at present causing trouble!!!!!
Amanda Farquhar.

Sylvia Plath.

Fonda.

When Jane Fonda wanted to change the World.



Now Jane Fonda wants to change the aging process.


She is consistent, with both campaigns being ineffective.

Happiness.

Happiness Is The Good Management Of Our Unhappiness.

Huge wind farm parts shipped from Fife.

Huge steel foundations each weighing as much as 80 elephants are being shipped from Fife to an offshore wind farm.

Energy company, Vattenfall, is ready to take delivery of the first four of 31 steel foundations for its 150 megawatt Ormonde Offshore Wind Farm.

The structures will be as high as two giraffes and each turbine blade weighing a wildebeest.
A spokesman for Vattenfall said today "This is our biggest undertaking to date our last structure was highland cow weight."

Read more on this Hippo+ of a story - here

Super Market

Famine.

A man in Ethiopia
picks up a piece of thrown bread
eats it and lives
to till again the tortured soil
in the forlorn hope
of a bland subsistence

A man in Scotland
who could pick up his phone
and have a van load
of delicacies
delivered to his door
Picks up a rope
and hangs himself

It isn't easy to understand
why a man in great need
clings to life
and a man with no apparent need
takes his life
It is said
"A man cannot live on bread alone"
and it would be reasonable to suppose
he considered the supermarket to have nothing
to comfort the torment
of his hungry soul.

Note for Sue.

Note for Sue

Your family sized tin of tomato soup
I ate it along with some bread
(you need more bread)
I shared it with Jo
we were hungry after making love.
Sorry, to have to break it to you like this
but as we once agreed in a conversation
about ex boyfriends/girlfriends
there is no easy way.
I found some money
in a tin behind the tomato soup tin
"Craig's Birthday" was written on a sticker
as it's near my birthday I took it
let me know if you want it back
I should have some money next week.
We're going out to the pub
the one with the karaoke (Jo's idea)
you know how she morphs into a karaoke Diva
after a couple of drinks.
I left your keys with Bill at 2/3
he was the only person in
you know Bill
the one you say Lear's at you
and gives you the creeps.
I'm moving in with Jo
I'll get my stuff tomorrow
could you leave the keys with someone
if you don't want to be in.
This one set of keys is a pain
if I find the set I lost
I'll send them back to you.

Chin up Babe

Luv Craig.

Teatime Dilemma.

Teatime Dilemma

"Mummy" Now that Graham's dead
can I get his bed
can I get his room
I'll open a window
to get rid of the stink
of his girlfriend's cheap perfume

Can I get his clothes
not everything
just the things I like
and his mountain bike

Can I get his college fund
that integral part of your great design
can it be mine

Can I get the car
you were going to buy him
when he graduated
can my life be celebrated

"Mummy" What are you doing
get away from the phone Leave it alone
"Daddy" Is that you
There's been a terrible accident
Graham's dead
I think Mummy is too
and there's nothing made for tea
on the way home could you stop and get
a take-away for me.

Chameleon.

Chameleon of virtue.

The chameleon of virtue
studies nature
with the natural eye
in unnatural light
defining matter
by an illusive
immaterial association
imputing credibility
to the incredulous
and approval
to the applied morality
of immaculate self deception
in blatant derision
of innate truth.

Reflected on a shop window

Window Shopping.

They glare at me
their faces a cauldron
of seething belligerence
I always seem to bring out the worst
I'm an expose' to their lack of grace

They notice I see them
instantly all smiles
stopping to chat

My response is tempered by grace

I see many things
the man with the camcorder comes to mind
"This camera" He explained
"Is focused on the human heart
from the inside to the outside
motive and intention
reason and emotion
thought and feeling"

It didn't dawn on me at the time
but in retrospect
I believe that man was an Angel.

Corridors.

This is not our life
or our time
this is an illusion of reality
composed of moments
when you still haunt me

You open a door
into a corridor within my mind
leading to another door
and into another life
a life lived in another time
mirrored in the memory
of what is to come

Time itself is an illusion
time is not outside us
time is within us
returning all things made
to the origin of substance

The body returns to dust
and the soul returns to God
we leave upon the Earth
the immortal human seed
and leap into timelessness

Where the past and the future
are remembered together
and the present invades all time

Where the light
floods the dungeons of hell
and the roar reverberates
bouncing off worlds

It is there that all are found Alive

Another door opens
and you are there
the love that never was
and always is
the passion that never lived
and cannot die
captured in the amber of youth

Tainted, by being virtuous
Prodigal, by being dutiful
Lost, by being found at home.