Friday, 14 August 2015

Nameless


(By Gub, HBC, June 2015)

...of the beasts of the garden, 
Gifted by God, To Adam, 
and also Eve 
For their dominion 
Of pastures, hedgerows and 
Brooks 
They brought forth words 
For the birds and the bees and 
The cattle and the sheep 
And the fish that swam 
Deep in the ponds 
And the rustle of the shrew 
Foraging beneath the 
Falling 
Autumn leaves 
And the names they gave were 
Noble and some were sad 
But for every creature 
They 
Anointed 
They felt their hearts sure and glad 
For how could distrust 
Be born at a beginning 
But in the weeks and months 
That passed; they grew less certain 
The names were less easy 
To cast 
Agreements harder to find. 
Divided they gave up the 
Roll-call 
Some creatures escaped 
Notice and crept away silent 
Unnamed 
Adam folded his list 
Eve sang a gentle lullaby 
To herself in the twilight 
As darkness 
The wind raked the surface of the water; 
Deep below the yellow flowered lily leaves, 
An unkown creature - black as frozen ice 
Darted

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