“unsigned horizon”
The horizon stays unsigned,
a gray span that won’t take a mark.
The raft holds by its own inward pull,
nothing formal keeping it together.
No place for the shore to grab hold,
no cut in the wood for a hook
to turn it toward the wharf.
When the cloud cover hardens into a wall,
and the air drops in its own weight,
the mind has to adjust to that dimness.
It learns to breathe underwater,
to keep a small counter‑current alive
while the world asks for a choice
it has no right to ask for.
The shore’s light keeps searching—
looking for a gap, a point to press—
and meets only a surface
that offers nothing back.
The sun rises needing no agreement,
moving in its own slow way,
a gold that holds even as dark pushes in—
gold behind the grey,
heat that stays when the rest goes cold,
steady enough to keep
the raft in one piece.
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Cryptic your poems are growing deeper and deeper. Here the horizon is unsigned indeed and gray. That gray hazy line that holds the meaning of something beyond but not visible from where one stands. I take the raft to be us afloat, our own inward force holding it together and no way to affix line or rope to draw us ashore. The next stanza speaks of the rigid view, a wall and we must learn to breath underwater creating hope in the form of counter currents to keep us alive. That lighthouse from shore meets no gaps in this wall of rigidity. It is the hope behind the clouds that gives us enough to keep ourselves together. That's my take but that too may be a wall of clouds that does not allow me to see the true light behind.
It’s probably because those around me are thinking deeply and that’s quite acclimatising it seems. I shall come up for air soon; I hope 🕊️🙏🏻
Always well written and powerful.
Katie
Thank you Katie B. 🕊️🙏🏻
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