Poems, essays, and other writings by eric bleys

A Piece of you Forever

Time strikes its heavenly gaze upon me

In a winter dust of wonder

Or in a pale cloak of falls melting hours

There stands a tall white horse

Held in the mist of his deep dark eyes

There is seen another hour

Of springs life in the hazy green

Meadows with a stream flowing backwards

Against the flow of time

Into the past jumps the streams of a wood

And the dark forest closes

Its seal on the present

As I stand here in memory

As such is the strange game

And the strangest thing of being human

It is to stand in a flowing stream

Of time moving ever forward

While always having a piece

A piece of one’s heart

Always in the past

And as orange and red lights

May flow from the stammering sun

Or kind gray hours tainted in blue

May stand from the moons deep gaze

As a glass of water amidst the desert’s harsh heat

Blue mountain be kind to me

Tall streets

And walls of power's great might

Be just to me

And let justice fall like the divine

Showing itself as the sun

With its ever clearest beam

Bringing truth to all things

So that I may know

That as the blue mountains grow green

In the spring as after death

The ghost of kind intentions

May stand like a spectrum

Of full colors in the light

Each with its own image

Each which is true

So that as all can see

No matter how weak in the eyes or the ears

The ray of my kind intentions

Even after death

So that whatever

Light of the divine which is in me

May in some sense stay with you

And even

As I boldly dare to say

With all of you

For kindness

Is like a blue stream

Even after one's heart dies

It can still give drink to many

And be given to

As many as who may find it

The clock will surely kill us all

Yet let your lights stay for tomorrow

As the faint glow

Which never leaves the room

Until the world itself

Is brought to dust

And everything which we now know

Is reduced to ash

And let the wanderer

Who may stumble

Find a locket

In that dust

And know that you had stood

And given your heart

On that fair day of kindness

Which the world uses as its heart

And whatever holds the worlds together

Will then in hindsight

Hold a piece of you forever.

- By Eric Bleys (Title, A Piece of you Forever).


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