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A Bridge of Time

by Ken Harnisch

Fog has its moments

But sweet solace needs the sunlight

And I need you.

 

 It is somehow

Not permitted to say this aloud

But these strong, unspoken cables

Hold up a bridge of time that still

Only you and I have crossed

 

And if

We were to reach that raging river

Of quiet despair again, sometime

In our lives, I think you would find

I am still the only one who will hear your

Heart beat under the waterfall of your living soul

And I know you will be the only one

Who hears me as the water roars

Defiance down in the gorges below

07/17/2003

Posted on 07/17/2003
Copyright © 2024 Ken Harnisch

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Jeanne Marie Hoffman on 07/18/03 at 05:58 AM

Your last six lines are incredible. I really like the images throughout the whole poem, and the analogy of the bridge.

Posted by Agnes Eva on 07/18/03 at 06:31 PM

it's a vivid scene, this bridge and the turmoil both under it and on it

Posted by Kathleen Wilson on 05/12/07 at 05:15 PM

It's amazing when emotion and language can build a bridge like this... a seamless strand that is as real as the feelings it expresses. That center stanza as a bridge between the directness of the first, and the descriptiveness of the last, acknowledges the iner stream between you two, built of time and silence, I know this well, and you have written it so well. This is the kind of thing that feels "identified" rather than constructed, that "bridge" --it is there, you just gave it a name. Wonderful.

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