A world
rent asunder ...
Two solitudes meet in isolation,
Entwined in the dance unbreakable.
Like the ice-formed contours
of this,
my home,
She flows from mountain to sea.
Free spirit of the reborn,
Now darting, now pausing
Like shadows at day’s rebirth.
The song I sing is heard but not heeded
- By the Queen of the Hills.
Fiery as clans of old,
cascading down
To meet this phial of
life;
Deep wells radiating a
new calm.
The Lady of the Manor.
Come home.
(c) Philip Ralph
Johnston
8 September 1991