The Stillness from Liminality by Eric Johnsen

Still, so still the stirring. And an unbroken moment
Exists between the seismic shifts occurring.
In the fading candlelight my love appears.
In her heart another fire casting a timid glow,
As faraway tremors grow near.

Free and yet confining, all the pre-dawn soliloquys and journals
Teasing out a silver lining.
She remembers how it was like yesterday,
With all the fears that haven’t gone away.
Trying to move beyond the realm of this liminal phase.

Smoke ascends from the burning sand.
Did the same condition never singe your stand?
So leave me if you have to.
The stillness will remain, for once, for you.

Torn between desires, with their triumphs and tragedies that,
In the end, reveal a cleansing fire.
To embrace the great unknown, to see it through –
And who can speak of deadlines overdue,
In that bold frontier, or back in the hemisphere we knew?

Looking back on the journey made, finding only refuge in the flame I swathe,
The stillness remains.

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