Posted June 16th, 2009 by Ezra Hilyer
In sorrows silence, In pains embrace,
Lift up your head; raise your eyes to mine.
My love cast far from me, this dessolate place.
Lift me up, lift me up, free my bondage in time.
When the sorrow of life, that crushing darkness, holds you fast-
Look no more to the past.
Glow the future, ruby promise of life.
And the smile in your eyes, a glitter of light,
Shines with joy, under velvet sky, and glittering stars,
Let me hold, let me love, oh, to keep this wondorous sight,
But the night it fades, The cool winds whisper and then slowly die.
That sweet thought, and rememberance slowly fade, I know not why…
On my knees in this hallowed place, alone I seek,
For what I do not know, Stain my tears the slatted floors,
And the pain of these years flow softly down my cheek.
Shut, oh shut tight the gate of memory, and these oaken doors.
A smile once, a kiss then, slip through the chinks and cracks.
Then down comes the wall I had built.
A rush of time, freed tatters of a once love,
With trembling hands, I open the silver cage and free the past,
And there in my palm, lies a lone white dove,
Expiring of life, slowly it draws a breath, its last,
What I had shut away, what was once locked and forgotten,
Now again I must remember.
In white glossamer threads, In soft downly silence,
The snow covered the ground, and clung to the houses.
And the ever marching rows of slatted fence,
Echo the past, from hither and hence.
And the laughter and tears, mellow through the years..
Shatter the stillness, In shards of thought.
And gather the joy, The joy of life,
For soon, if you tarry, and tarry you ought,
That glitter it fades, In shables of strife.
For what have you gained?
For what have you sought?
Smile my child, laugh away the pain.
Hope for the morn, and give my love
to the darkness and midnight rain.
Be it not forever thus,
The sun now soon peeks .
As the threads of Time unravel a new day
Only this thought remains,
Of the hope I held that day, Long, long ago.
In the eternity to come, I would that I could,
Bear the burden I have given to you.
-Ezra Hilyer