Poems by Themis

Unfulfilled Fulfilment

Within this deep fulfilment grows

the vision of a richer glory,

making unfulfilled

our hearts.

Our dreams in meeting kiss

to momentary glory,

and all eternity's white dreams

pass unfulfilled...

This mock of each fulfilment

we must pass, pass its small completeness

to gather all those dreamers' places

beyond our lone time-paths.

The emptiness of this fulfilment

grows upon our vision's heart,

our fear's heart that dreams

the next quick empty moment

like sudden death...

and dreams too the fulfilment just beyond, —

beyond our power:

a blessing that shall turn the ways to meeting,

(the incantation's half-felt meaning

grown bright with gifts...)

the undreamt meeting and fulfilment

yet never our last...

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