Upon a Bridge One Night

For a moment
there -
he rested
his heart upon
her shoulder
and wept
until the
poison of
inadequacy
subsided
paused in
comfort's touch.

She laid aside
her angered
grief to calm
another's soul -
with eyes
closed and
covered ears
she gave what
only could be felt.

Perhaps this
sort of love
needs no
fiery embrace
but moment's
calm and
tender hope
to assuage
the pain of
life.

© Eleanor Clark
30 March 2014

Resurrection

In darkest death
My soul entombed.
Bindings of sin
wound
in strangling pain
and distance from
the light -
Anoint my
soul in
Gilead's balm
and lift my
heart and hand
in thine.
Unwrap the
grasp of death
to bring me
out into
the sun.

© Eleanor Clark
15 September 2013

Soul Destruction

Some days
are soul destroying
in forms
and words that
define one's life -
when it's just
easier to succumb
to grief
frustration
anger
pain.

Some days
you just don't
care that one
day things
will
work out
because right
now in the
darkness you
cannot see
the way out
from all the
uncertainty.

And in the
darkness
and the pain
I see
the soul -
burning away
all the
roughness
until only
pure light
remains.

© Eleanor Clark
15 January 2014

Deadly Words

The music made
With words
trickled down
Her skin like
Perfumed night,
jasmine-scented
Twilight shadows
Twisting through
Her veins like
Icy nightshade.

Such were his
Words in tender
Heartbeats uttered.
Never had
'I loved you'
Killed so
Accurately -
So deadly
In a moment.

© Eleanor Clark
9 January 2014