Thursday, 12 June 2008

When Loneliness Has Gone

June 12th Thursday



To hold a living creature,

to learn its loveliness,

to feel its trust beat in our hands,

to know its trust, is at last to

understand that we are kin.

Is to lose all loneliness.


...


If friends fail us, if the phone is silent

and the postman passes

Our dog will touch our knee, and

smile, and say

Who cares?

All the more time for us to be together.

Come for a walk.

This is a splendid day.

3 comments:

Furtheron said...

Did you write that? Nice

caroline said...

Yes do you like it?

Liz Hinds said...

That's lovely and very true.

I didn't know you were a poet.