SALISBURY PERSPECTIVES POEM 18

The cloud cover hides us from the sun and we continue in our own way.

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"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes." Arthur Conan Doyle

Before You

I advance the mystery clear before me,

Before you I stand entranced,

Transfixed as if in a dream,

Your secrets to be unlocked anew.

There is something new in your eye,

A glint of understanding of the unknown,

Only you can show me for your stare,

Reflects the fire inside me.

I do not understand but I perceive.

An ancient pact was made here,

And cannot be broken or ruptured,

For it is true and strong in that truth.

Before you I am undone,

Paralysed in your great shadow,

I leave you not for you are in me,

I cannot leave for I want you.

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." Oscar Wilde