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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476703" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In You</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In you I come to the end of roads, <br> and an alphabet of burning wings <br> falls from an indigo sky <br>like meteors trying to write <br> the unsayable in a slash of light, <br> in a language of luminous scars <br>the night beatifies with mystic knowledge <br> that wants to name you<br> so deeply in thresholds and stars <br>the charged silence <br> is giving birth to an indelible mouth, <br> a doorway of blood, <br>an ancient grammar of fire <br> the wind puts on like a robe <br> to scry the darkness for a voice<br>that could fill the goblets <br> of the moon's dead seas <br> with the wine of a radiant wound, <br>so much within me <br> already the tongue of a bell <br> that can taste you like blackberries.<br>The whole of you <br>in every single dropp of your eyes, <br> you are the black swan <br>of the eclipse that rares its reflection in water, <br> the dark orchid in the shadow of the dragon<br> that sways like a bell in the night, <br>even your absence a shape of cherishing, <br> a harvest of shadows beyond the light<br> of the lamp that burns for you.<br>Within the deepest abyss of myself <br> where the heart stands alone <br> like a single black pillar <br>in the twilight wasteland of the world, <br> a mysterious temple to the ultimacy <br> of having been here once <br>to suffer the passage of form and time, <br> everything a gesture of space <br> that thaws back into itself, <br>I have written your name <br> in the hourglass of my blood <br> like a whisper of secret ink <br>that once voiced the light to be<br> and shook the stars like wheat <br> out of its blind abundance<br>and will be remembered forever <br> as the first intimacy of the sea, <br> and there is the rumour <br>of a dream in the air, <br> the fragrance of an approach, <br> that out of an ocean of light <br>the tide will embody a woman <br> like the shore of an island <br> littered with fingertips and kisses<br>enmeshed like galaxies and starfish<br> in the exhalation of her veils<br> and our lips will meet like archers, <br>and our bodies will sing like arrows <br> sunk like orchards through the heart<br> and long after the last flame of life is shed, <br>the night will silence the birds <br> in the groves where we bled like poppies <br> to open the gates of the mystery <br>like keys and rain, or the rosary of black pearls <br> that chants its prayers to the night <br> like the slow alarm of autumn geese <br>in the eyes of a human face.<br> I try to say what can't be said, <br> pouring my spirit <br>into the wineskin of every word, <br> but my heart is a larger apple <br> than the bough of my voice can bear, <br>and the silence <br>that would erect temples everywhere like flowers<br> spun from the auroral silks of my soul<br>and perfume the air with the pollen of sacred fireflies, <br> every emotion a priest with a shaven head<br> to honour the moon<br>climbing the stairwell within me<br>of a million horizons at once<br> in every breathless step, <br>falls away behind me like the wake of a sinking ship<br> that lowers me into my coffin like a lifeboat<br> or a message in a bottle <br>that pleads like wine with the emptiness <br> for an alphabet that isn't in arrears to time <br> to say you to the night <br>in a lightning breath of life beyond <br> these elemental likenesses I carve <br> from a quarry of stars.<br>And I know I ask for immortal children <br> from a human womb, <br> and wide as my powers are <br>to exceed the sky with homing birds, <br> to adorn the dead branch with windows <br> that dazzle the roots of dawn, <br>I am the ashes of a black star in daylight, <br> a stone man with a chain for a tongue <br> when I try to swim like Atlantis<br>through the depths of your shining within<br> and the last word, the last life <br> to flash across my mind as I drown<br>again and again like a pulse <br>in the embrace of your beauty<br> is always the world as it is<br>before anything was said.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Patrick+White">Patrick White</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476703" data-title="In You de Patrick White" data-description="In you I come to the end of roads, and an alphabet of burning wings falls from an indigo sky like meteors trying to write the unsayable in a slash of light, in a language of luminous scars the night beatifies with mystic knowledge th..."></div> </div> </div>
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