Sister Seduction
Sister Seduction
Came to me at night-time
Not Virgin Mary
Mother, wife
She was the darkness of the spirit world
The banner of true life unfurled.
And in the kiss of darkness here I found
No words of comfort, sense or sound
Just darkness, silent bare
That siphoned up all earthly care
And left me still
at peace
In heavenly release
From all that troubled me in life
The pain, the joy, the fear
The strife
She bid me rest
At her behest
Soothing sorrow
Cast out harm
In night’s placenta of her calm.
Free from night-care, nightmare, fear
The pressures that the world holds dear
I welcomed her attention
The love we dare not mention
Which rescues me to death
To stillness, cool and quiet
Sister Seduction
Stay with me to dawn
I'll start the day re-born
When Sister, dear, is gone.
But Sister never leaves
The soul to which she cleaves.
Sister Seduction
Came to me in winter
Sliding on the frozen bough
Skimming on the frosted air
And in the breath of hoar-spun stillness
I knew that she was there
To fill my heart with consolation
In my life's redemption
The price that we have paid for living
To the world we take
And giving
Something of ourselves in every breath we breathe.
She came to me at Christmas time
No Father Christmas, Santa Claus
Myrrh, frankincense or gold
No story to be told
Of angels, choirs and bells.
From churchyard towers peeling
No peace on earth revealing
No peace on earth
No God's rebirth
No feeling
Of Yuletide cheer
As in each year
The holly, ivy, mistletoe
Shows us that new life will grow
In winter cold and Christmas snow
Sister Seduction
Took me to that mistletoe
And kissed me.
In the comfort of her arms
There was nothing to alarm
In a mystery which blessed me.
Sister Seduction
Came to me in silence
When I was alone
“Come” she sighed “Please come
And I will take you home
In quietude
In still, submissive attitude”.
She mopped from my fevered brow away
The sweat of humdrum every-day
To keep, I know not what, to keep
The worries which forbade me sleep
At night
In parlous plight
I thirst, I dream
And nothing is what it may seem
“Rest a while, my brother, rest
Your loving sister knows what is best
Don't speak, don't say
The words that would make me fade away
Sh.....
I shall take you before I go
To where the crystal fountains flow
Just keep your silence, keep
And I shall let you sleep
The rest that you deserve”.
Sister Seduction
Understood my wish
To fade into the silence
Into the soundless word
Into the void of God.
Sister Seduction
Came to me
In sorrow
Joy and pain
Not caring
For tomorrow
Just to live today
And never go away
Printed pictures of a childhood
Spent in summer's solitude
Before I went to school
And learned to live by social rule
In our garden’s fragrance
Wandered as a vagrant
Through country lane
To which I shall come again
Sister told me so
She should surely know
Rather I have ceded to her will
All desire, and wants, and still
So that I may wonder
Through my childhood yonder
Never feeling conscious pain
Sunstrokes, fog or rain
In sanctuary of thought
In her care I sought
My destiny
In eternity
Sister Seduction
Soothed me
When the pain was great
Soothed with love my remnant hate
And never left again ...
... again
Sister Seduction
Came to me in summer
When the fields and the pasture
Were green - in tune with nature
She settled at a distance
Where bumble-bees hummed
And crickets strummed
Their limbs in melody
The murmurers of harmony
Through which the world would pass
As I lay down in grass
And shared with none the loneliness
Of being there alone
With none
Yet she was by my side
Taking me to realms of glory
Telling me the new, old story
Of what it was
And what it is
And what it ever shall be.
We shall not grow old
As they that are left grow old
Age will not weary us
Nor the years condemn
Honest, brave and true
Me and only you.
I fell in love with a dark girl’s charms
Found peace
Contentment
In her arms
Loved her ways
Her joie de vivre
Gave me again the will to live.
And in the autumn of my time
I doubted that one so young could be mine.
Sister Seduction
Faded, grey
Came to me no more
By night or day
She always stayed away..
My darling died
Quite suddenly.
Her heart gave out
No words
No scream of pain
No shout.
She passed away
One squally surly winter’s day
There is no love in loss
No hope in sad bereavement
Nothing sweet in death
For those who leave
Or those left here to grieve.
Sister Seduction
Comes to me in robes of mediocrity
Her charm extinct
Her allure
Her former force
Have lost their power.
Where, death, is thy sting?
Where, grave, thy victory?
The prick of death remains for only those
Alive
Who, living, further strive
To face this loneliness alone
Bereft of one they love.
Sister Seduction
You do kill not those who welcome your advance
Whose wits, and dreams, and senses
You may still entrance
For when they yield
Your dream is fulfilled.
Exit.
Dead.
And gone.
Sister Seduction
You must wait
Before I come along.
