Jerrold Elliot
Down through the ages, I saw you.I watched as you watered your dreams.
How I longed-wanted to be a steadying influence,
to pull you from life's cruel extremes.
I thought often of you, my Brother.
Of lives that we both have lived,
I remembered the sun of your youth
and the order - the priority you gave "to be free".
I saw nothing to harness your spirit,
your mood was, "okay, that's cool!".
Who could have known storms were coming,
clouds to hover
despair to cover - paths that would laugh, taunt and
with tease, yell "Fool!"
I watched as you settled for - but never settled down.
I witnessed a once, undaunted smile...slowly move to a
morphed kind of frown.
it was the sunset of years I remember,
those takers-such stealer's of dreams;
Where I saw no rest for you, weary.
No place to ly down it would seem...
Then!
Through life's darkness a Piercing, A ray
moving, into your night!!
So strong to the eye, this Beholder,
so Powerful the course of it's flight...
Straight in and over, to the heart of the matter!
So blasting, so bold,
sweeping clean and so Cold, a once clenched fist trying hard-fast to hold
Chained up - Pent up - Tied Shards,
I saw Darkness, shatter!
Now as I look, I see and you're free,
Not as proposed but more
as One should Be...
Living out life in sweet-complete Victory.
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