TRIP TO HISTORIC BATH POEM 44

We approach the New Year for China - a Luna New Year. There is destruction and chaos and this brings about the newness of life. So in the very deepest of despair, we can know that this is when we are creating anew.

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“Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream.” Joseph Conrad

Destitute

An empty square with no stalls,

We look on as there is nothing,

Only what we have together,

Beyond which there is only expanse.

Without you I would be destitute,

So do not leave me alone,

For you are my home, my family,

My fortune and my love.

There are brighter days ahead,

We will see sense in all things,

And life will be something,

More than a waste of papers.

You alone know of my darkest,

Moments whispered prayers,

With no light to extinguish,

We shall make our own light, my love.

“Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.” Virginia Woolf