We need peace,
not just for our survival
but because there is a reason,
a deeper purpose behind us being here
and it’s that we demonstrate to ourselves,
the universe and anyone else who is interested
that love, life and free will are not incompatible,
it’s been a long and difficult courtship but now
we need to start thinking about the marriage,
so much depends on it, not just for our little planet
but for every star that has ever graced our darkness.
DF. W-S 2024 XXXV/V
Who would have thought
that there’s a billion times
more love around us
than there is pain within us?
Who would have thought
that belief is the lightning rod
that connects the two together?
Who understands that to know light
you must first know your darkness
or that pain is for the moment
and love is for ever?
DF. W-S 2024 XXXV/IV
Love isn’t there
for you to barter with,
to be hoarded in a relationship
or to be doled out to others like party favours,
it’s there to fill your heart first, then fill your house,
then blow the windows out and fill the world,
a world in which the only reason
for having anything good is to give it away.
DF. W-S 2024 XXXV/III
Once upon a time
the only thing that
a little man like me
would have to worry about was
what was happening in his village,
these days all the little people on the earth,
every one of us, feels as if they have the weight
of a burning world on their shoulders
and that there’s almost nothing
we can do about it.
So brothers and sisters,
let us show them
what we can do, let us pray.
DF. W-S 2024 XXXV/II
It’s midwinter,
it’s getting dark by three
and yesterday was bitter cold,
in the evening all I want to do is go to bed,
put the lights out and feel the weight
of your body next to mine,
listen to the rhythm of your breathing as you sleep
and remember that I am a very lucky man.
DF. W-S 2024 XXXV/I
I’m walking through the park,
on the morning of my
seventieth birthday.
Before I got up
I lay in bed in the warmth,
the quiet and the darkness of
our room for an hour or more thinking
about things, nothing special, just thinking
as I drifted in and out of sleep.
Now as I walk I can feel
the breeze blowing clear through me,
as if I am present but without a body,
it’s not frightening or anything like that,
it’s just blowing through me
rather than around me.
DF. 31-3-2021 1493
I’m seventy years old today,
I’ve had my three score years and ten,
from now on the rest is yours.
DF. 29-3-2021 1494
It’s warm and dark
out here this morning, just a light breeze,
as I crest the hill, my feet silent on the path,
the city lights spread out before me,
there, sitting quietly on the grass
is a fox taking in the view.
As I pass by he looks over his shoulder
and we acknowledge one another,
then he turns back to his
morning contemplation
and I continue with to mine.
DF. 21-2-2021 1468
I’m just an ordinary man,
filled with the same fears
as I imagine everyone else is,
but like I imagine everyone else is
I’m only broken at the edges,
inside there’s a light that can see over
the horizon of my fear to the good in others,
it’s the best thing in me, the best thing in all of us.
DF. 20-2-2021 1467
I think of all
the empty places
where nobody ever goes,
places that slowly fill with secrets
which are tended by the spirits of the dead
until the people they belong find enough courage
to bring them home to their hearts again,
home to all of our hearts, where they
can make us strong and fearless,
as we were always
meant to be.
DF. 19-2-2021 1466
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