need you now - International Poetry

need you now
by ryall Saturday, Sep 11 2010, 10:59am
international / poetry / post

how long must i wait,
my love?

come to me,
u have never abandoned me
before
or left me forlorn,
bereft of heart
and soul.

envelop and revive me
cover me like the morning mist
blankets a lake,
raise my spirit with the sun.

elevate me,
help bear my weight a while
until i am able to fly again;
a little time is required
to recover from a barrage
of poison arrows
and bruising blows.

release my spirit
from its temporal bonds
penetrate the canopy,
reach me
lying wounded
in the undergrowth
on the cold forest floor --
heal my bones;

steal my soul,
hold it captive
and release it
in Paradise.

you approach

i feel ur warmth on
the northern wind
and ur strength in my spine;
you come

delivered

revived again
by your
faithful
embrace,

We are One

Victory.

How often she has gazed from castle windows o'er,
And watched the daylight passing within her captive wall,
With no-one to heed her call.

The evening hour is fading within the dwindling sun,
And in a lonely moment those embers will be gone
And the last of all the young birds flown.

Her days of precious freedom, forfeited long before,
To live such fruitless years behind a guarded door,
But those days will last no more.

Tomorrow at this hour she will be far away,
Much farther than these islands,
Or the lonely Fotheringay