Monica Richards

Vervain

Monica Richards


A thousand dreamers crept as one   Journey'd by the colder sun  
Knocked at the chamber's gate   Yet this sleeper does not wake  
In the oracle overhung   With careless whispers, ivystung  
Their tiny fingers cling to warmth   A home for the love weary heart  

Onward sacrarium, time sojourns   Palanquin leads this path adorned  
While reverent creatures soft prepare   The slumberous beauty carried there  
And lay their hands on silken skin   As through these veins the gods did run  
Two thousand arms in twilight   Endless dream and endless night  

Past echoed ruins overgrown   Small voices drift in ancient tongue  
Mindful to their deepest wish   For a home to the love weary heart  

In soft embrace I now arise   And search for peace in hungering eyes  
Thy faces change: my love renames   Our starlit world, the past remains  
Forgotten by linear spite   One thousand pairs of second sight  
Who through my eyes at last may see   We are divinity   We choose to be