A grassy knoll
Haven high upon a grassy knoll, sprawled amid the twilight blades
Here I lay, a jaded prophet… of this deliberate modern age?
Captured by her cosmic beauty, apprehensions from another life… Suddenly, they all begin to fade… far, far away!
Then the wind, she whips and whispers resolutions and parades of her presage
To warn me of the conundrums that resides below this hillock, ascending towards me soon again I shall embrace
The city lights dazzling, dances in the distance beneath, all pastel notions they endeavor to erase
This hummock my sanctuary from a teenage world, bombarded with lofty ideals so young… struggling to face
Here among this splendor vastness, her majesty the cosmos I am free to be, to exist
Guises undone, my performance here the stars in the heavens among
They twinkle applause and are completely transfixed
And I take my bow…
Once again onto supple frays I lay among the dews
My being to be here and be aroused by life still wanting to confuse
Wavering thoughts before my return
Escaping upward to my Eternal Father from which patience and humbleness I must learn...
Again I am lost among the glorious grandeurs of autumn breezes that hide here…this tranquil special place
Knowing out there another’s quandaries to abate
And I ponder and wonder of a young woman’s futures and her fates,as I gaze to the skies...
That maybe one day I’ll come here with someone I love, my husband
But Lord, please do not reveal all, leave something’s to surprise
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Submitted on April 06, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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