agony

It is the passion
not the fear of damnation which drives me
I say what are we waiting for?

An answer
but an answer never comes
after the worst had happened
and my insanity subsided
but was not gone
I looked up at the sun

I just looked
it was partly shrouded
but it was there

love does not subside
it does not know death
death alien to it

for what is love?
I do not know how to begin to define it
that is for my father
and my father’s fathers
All better men than I
and beyond

beyond all concept of human thought
and beyond that even
even out beyond the stars
and the death of the universe

the world keeps spinning
and I am small
but not insignificant
for I have known a mother’s love