Anam Cara

THE CORONATION

It was a long time ago in another land.

Who can tell how it really was before belief

Came towards you with a hunger that could not see you

Except against white air cleansed of the shadow of earth?

No inkling that you were a free spirit who loved

The danger of seeing the world with an open mind,

How you strove to be faithful to uncertainty

And let nothing unquestioned settle in your heart.

You loved to throw caution to the wind when you danced.

To be outside in the dawn before people were,

Letting the blue tides of your dreaming settle ashore.

The village said you put the whole thing into his head.

In the glow of your silence, the heart grows tranquil.

No one will ever know where you had to travel.