Abiding Space

(it is not my memories which haunt me

It is not what I have written down

It is what I have forgotten, what I must forget,

What I must go on forgetting all my life)

There is eternity this night, an endless light

Signs from above reminding me of home and love

I hide my face amid a crowd of velvet stars

See great rings all around my head

I'm looking back

Created to pretend we never die

I feel like one coming out of an upper room

To fret no more and walk abroad so confirmed

There's time in hours, in days and years

Driven by the spheres

The child, the place, their warm embrace

What abiding space?

Created to pretend we never die

I feel like one coming out of an upper room

To fret no more and walk abroad so confirmed

The houses shine in silence

And the child in me steps in so deep

In this unshaded place

A soul on its lonely path