Eternity
Grandad grabbed me
From bed. Wailing...SCREAMING
Air-raid sirens...........
Crying, wrapped in blanket
Carried past deserted village school
Out to fields.
Passing beneath huge enveloping trees.....
Approaching the rushing, rinsing river
Him talking to don't know who?
Accompanied by insinuating rustling leaves......
Quivering eyelids
Squinting against the surging
Brilliant full face
MOON.
Hear that? he hissed, halting.
In the hushed, cold, floodlit stillness
I felt my soul warbling with the air.
It be a nightingale" he whispered.
With that, a gap inside me
Fell silently, mysteriously
From man's spoken land
Into that strange sea
Of eternity
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