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The Wind Voice

Screaming down across the ground, the wind voice howls the valley scowls, its trees bending, hesitating before the crack, the split of bark now rips the dark as the bough comes crashing down. Now misshapen and out of balance the great oak tree has lost its grace, and for ever now will be out of place.

That which did the Wind Voice now take down, its time again will come around, these days of dark, and cloud, and rain, when rivers rise and take the same away with a flood that strikes, takes, and breaks and washes all away. Wait then until another day, the day the “Wind Voice” fades away. To recover then in this broken place rebuild life the way it was.

Accomplished then with much endeavour, the rebuilt way is safe to tread, relaxing after so much work, but with stress to last, it’s enough to say “Thank God” time to start again in grace, as the days and years pass by. Then one day looking back along the bright horizon, dark lines could be seen, lurking in the sky.

The sun today looks far away, its promise hard to reach, the future then becomes unsure and certainty leaks away, and fresh doubts cloud the day. To the book we run, will we be undone? Did we read it right? What brings this blight upon us now? What have we done? These dark lines begin to grow, and the air itself it starts to shimmer as it moves away, it can’t be caught not matter how we run, even unto the sun!

Those dark lines grew, as once more the horizon lost its shape, the land itself became the sky, and the “Wind Voice” returned its cry, with so much a vengeance as to rip all things out of place, disturbance of the very earth became the day, run we did but without direction, as in a circle round and round, then a lone green leaf was seen but too soon trampled to the ground

(2006)

We are at the mercy of the elements as this poem makes clear, but it is also a metaphor for our lives and behaviour, that what we sow we reap, and those innocents affected by us must their lives remake...

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