I: Beauty and Solace It’s been a while since I’ve felt like penning anything poetic, and I didn’t imagine I’d be musing on matters of the heart for some time. I must confess that this is far from the height of poetic prowess. As the good book should have said, long is the way and … Continue reading A beauty which speaks to your soul
Beauty
Tell your children to abandon their names
I. Creation A soul such as mine am I such a thing to be so markedly special in a world indifferent and cruel. I chased a light shooting up toward the heaven and was bathed in the dying glow of a sleeping sunset. A ray so pure and straight it sprung from the ocean like … Continue reading Tell your children to abandon their names
Four Days Before the Old Man Passes On
My grandfather once told me that to ease the pain which arises from the vagaries of life, you must break from the world, and look at the falling skies from the depths of your soul’s anguish. I have spent my whole life in a deep isolation trying to learn the meaning of these words. There … Continue reading Four Days Before the Old Man Passes On
Two Ts in the Heart of Things
There is no home. We will die unnamed buried in unmarked graveyards of broken dreams. And so, we pray for ourselves and our children. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit: I give thee unto the grace of the waters of the lord as you sail on … Continue reading Two Ts in the Heart of Things
The Colours of the Sky
You were like a flower in a peaceful corner free from the world in a timeless hour I felt the cold fold leave my hand; a dying hope on a mound lying atop a pile of sand I watched you wash away like a soft stone melting in the river bay I wish I could … Continue reading The Colours of the Sky
A star so bright
A star so brightA treasure of the nightFixed in its independenceIt glowed so freeClaiming its placein the beautiful dark skyAnd it shined so serenely as if to bestow kindness upon the worldIn the pure radiance of its light my heart meltedAnd the humans enchanted by so enigmatic a forcefind the greatest of gifts bequeathed to … Continue reading A star so bright
Simon Rakei 