Shadow Embrace

Shadow Embrace

Copyright 2017 Don Ray

The embrace of shadows,

welcoming home;

Mere projections of embrace, 

offering hints

of the depths of connection.

Perfection dances behind the shadows,

projecting silhouettes of souls onto time, 

that we might touch and be touched;

Welcome home, welcome home,

perfection hidden for now,

awaiting the timeless merging where now becomes past and future,

and the substance behind our shadows is revealed.

Worship

Worship
Copyright 2017 Don Ray

It is of course worship, desperate, frantic, clinging worship.

It is worship of a memory, a past and prescient and present memory,

a memory alone in its nature,

a memory ineffable.

It is merely worship,

worship pure and distilled,

worship clumsy and groping;

worship of the unknown,

worship of the uncertain,

worship born of faith undeniable,

that kernel of faith left when all that once passed for faith has dissolved away.