The Weave That Binds Us by Martin Burke

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'This is where the world begins and ends where it celebrates itself where it says seek me, find me, name me where I have loved the pleasing sunlight and welcomed the shadows where the verbs no matter how often they are cited cannot be exhausted where even the twilight is agreeable and to which the mind says:

This is where the world begins and ends
where it celebrates itself
where it says seek me, find me, name me

where I have loved the pleasing sunlight
and welcomed the shadows

where the verbs
no matter how often they are cited
cannot be exhausted

where even the twilight is agreeable
and to which the mind says Yes
knowing, as it does, that this is where the beautiful
is

the light residing here
water its recipient
and the outcome a further confirmation
of the world you walk in

no, you cannot exhaust it
the poem is never completed
the echoes repeat endlessly
and the music you hear
in one that cannot be written

so you name what you cannot find
but do so in the tentative tense

a novice citing the testimonies
you are astonished by

the one which feeds the heart and says
this is where the heart lies down."