YOU TOUCHED ME

Life’s joy-filled celebrations humanise our animal ways,
For they draw us back to a basic community of silence
Where inhibitions and egos fall away and we once again:
…………….Live fully immersed in the otherness of others;
…………….Regain harmony in her silent musical tones;
…………….See and hear fully as though for the first time!

Sharing the celebrations humanises others animal ways,
For in our community of noise we lose each others needs
As the selfishness of our fears grips and we so often:
…………….Live darkly in the otherness of others;
…………….Lose perspective as her music is drowned;
…………….See and hear our sameness not uniqueness!

You touched me in way that you can never fully know,
For in your simple act of kindness I saw clearly again
That place where the poets go and I was once again:
…………….Alive in the presence of something beyond us;
…………….Present to the music of Natures quiet self;
…………….Seeing and hearing fully bathed in her Love!

David Scanlon – England – (1963 - )

Scanlon. D (2020) Timeless Truths. The Foolish Poet Press, Wilmslow, England. YOU TOUCHED ME. Page Number 999.

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