Poems by Themis

So Far the Days

So far the days when you were among us here,

And spoke and walked with us; such beauty filled

Our lives, and every fibre of being thrilled

Ecstatic at your touch, so warm, so near.

How far those days; and since then, year on year

Has passed, and all the outer sense is stilled,

And every vanity and joy we willed

Broken apart, and cracked its dry veneer.

— Slowly you drove us inward, there to find

Your love and Presence in the heart's abyss,

Deep down within the wells of light and bliss,

Where all is for ever true, for ever sure,

Where neither Space nor passing Time can bind,

And we are one with You for ever more.

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