SYLLEPSIS
- in memory of the late Alex Fairbairn
She lowered her standards by raising her glass,
Her courage, her eyes and his hopes.
Flanders and Swann
He left his wet boots at the backdoor,
His burning sorrows on the boot scrape.
The cold rain spoiled her poisoned glass
And inundated the rushing rivers.
τα πάντα ρεί - Ta panta rhei
The waves and eddies forever change
But their patterns and shapes are constant.
The camera stops the mutation
To show the eternal paradigm.
Flicker-pages show the deception:
That the moment freezes and cascades.
Fire burns and heats and the water boils;
Water douses the ruddy embers;
The fire evaporates the water;
Fire cremates and water drowns and scalds.
She stayed on as long as she wished to,
And at the end she didn’t stay her hand.
She raised her glass as long as needed.
He lowered her ashes into the earth.
Ta panta rhei - everything flows.
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Author:
Robert Tilleard (
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Comments2
Traveler you carry the weight of souls ...
Thanks Lorenz - don't worry, we Brits have a stiff upper lip...
Lovely write. Powerful words there.
Thanks - too kind...
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