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By Jack Joseph Smith
The Gaze Your In
Once far down sloped yet still close to seabound
I saw the four suns silent with joy!
sorrow shearing God away as well
Color sliding with motion, knowing all of it is pure white,
and will give nothing back
The cross of light that takes you to the end,
bleak and hurting, catching, capturing before your step,
tieing the knot in yourself
There your vision goes no further; the singularity of sight,
it is watching space,
beyond any throught of a sign come to you
Gigantic without love while you love it
The place where you can crumble before the suns turned Moons
Throwing you down like Elk in a last graciousness,
a disappearing rest, some on purpose with their way,
some unsure where thought has led them
In a tundra where Caraboo shimmer like myths over the plain
And up the passes the mountains call down,
long before time made two for love;
watch like wildlife, the seperation of a kiss, is a river
needed to be crossed
Yes we can make that, surely we can do that,
all of our heart has nothing only when we think it so
And the something about love, and wastelands too,
is that it will always be more powerful than you