Beyond

Bed bound lad
gazing from a window,
across the field and over the hedge.

Old woman
resident in a home,
the holiday she'll never have.

Patient
wracked by pain,
the release as this surge subsides.

Child
charged to write a story,
the scene she half imagines but cannot finish.

Musician,
the different, new silence
to which the music will return.

Climber
atop a mountain,
the place where land and sky meet.

Lawrence,
the hopeful, brave voyage begun,
the next shore, as yet unseen.*

Believer
immersed in story and metaphor,
the unseen worlds outside this one.

Or if faith and trust dim, you may think
you will come to a place
where beyond must cease,
in contravention of all precedent.

Alps and Beyond ©Janet Henderson

* A reference to D.H. Lawrence's Poem The Ship of Death

@Janet Henderson 25th September 2016