Wednesday, 29 October 2014

Coalmine Black


Clothed she is in coalmine black
The son has looked upon her
Those people not her people hate her:
From the reflection of their inner face they flee
They dig and delve, they seek and search
But all the time there in their looking-glass book
           
Garnered she is in pillars of smoke
Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense
From the clefts of the rock the voice of the dove
But being paved with pain they couldn’t bear it and fled
They dig and delve, they seek and search
Yet all the time there in their looking-glass book
                         
Immersed she is in the songs of birds
In the secret places of the stairs she lives
With all flowers of the appearing the flight of the dove
But being lined with pain they couldn’t bear it and fled . . .
Ever learning they never learn: ever seeking they never find
Yet it is all the time there, in their seeing of their inner face





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