Doubt shall not make an end of you <br />nor closing eyes lose your shape <br />when the retina's light fades; <br />what dawns inside me will light you. <br />In our public lives we may confine ourselves to darkness, <br />our nowhere mouths explain away our dreams, <br />but alone we are incorruptible creatures, <br />our light sunk too deep to be of any social use <br />we wander free and perfect without moving <br />or love on hard carpets <br />where couples revolving round the room <br />end found at its centre. <br />Our love like a whale from its deepest ocean rises - <br />I offer this and a multitude of images <br />from party rooms to oceans, <br />the single star and all its reflections; <br />being completed we include all <br />and nothing wishes to escape us. <br />Beneath my hand your hardening breast agrees <br />to sing of its own nature, <br />then from a place without names our origin comes shivering. <br />Feel nothing separate then, <br />we have translated each other into light <br />and into love go streaming.<br /><br />Brian Patten<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/doubt-shall-not-make-an-end-of-you/
