Francois Bergh
where lost words come to rest in pieces…Archive for April, 2012
Gasping For Breath
In you my whole essense is lost -
It is caught on the hem of a dream…
For you I will pay any cost -
For a moment to swim in your stream…
To you I will dive any depth -
I will find you in bottomless wells…
From you comes the life that I crave -
The heat and the blood in my veins…
Through you flows the air that I need -
You leave me wanting and needing and …
Gasping for breath…
Leap of faith
I’m urged to take the lurch;
Compelled to heed your spell -
Leaving terra firma
For the buoyancy of new…
Certainly uncertain;
Afloat this raft of hope -
Needing – ever craving
For the mystery of you…
Waking to the aching;
Longing for your song -
Guide me to your island -
Please tell me what to do…
Memento
From time I’ll steal this moment;
A keepsake forever – now mine -
Whispered in the gale of futility,
And held for the briefest eternity,
Then wrapped in dearest proximity
To hearts lost in infinity…
Be my world
Let me encompass your lovely equator
And lazily lounge in your dream-latitudes…
Let me hide from the wind in your coves -
Give me lee in your estuaries…
Let me explore all your silvery beaches
Embellished in splendour by coral lagoons -
Feel me clamber through your mystery caves
As I ravish your endless ravines…
Let me rain onto your arid plains
To fill your brooks with life
In meandering fingering rivulets
As I wistfully wade your wetlands…
Let me garnish your glades
And forever in forests
Let us weep from the streams
Into ponds of our passion…
