Eliot: Hope
July 20, 2017
I was searching for a hope at any price – except
Integrity – not mine – but of that skein, reputed
Of fine thread held up, held out; which latched onto
That it should hold me firm
And take my wait, so break my fall, my fears
Colliding head-on with uprushing floors, concrete, intact
As flat
Brute fact innures us, as evidence assures us
To vast acute endurance
Unless a cure is
By dividend realisable on death, substantial Yes
Beyond last breath, a chest of aspirations, many notes
Promisory set down intended wholly to the purpose
To make for purchase
Spirit
Streamed, and encrypted data from The Dreamtime Maker’s Webpage
Himself the pledge, and giving the edge makes my desire
On fire; via text hotwired, and cast, don’t laugh
Mysteri-oh-so-wisely
A turf first broached well-back before when, or them who
First understood
Nor yet technologies, telephonies, nor other wonder works;
Some few were served
Word of His global news-storm
Beaming down light like Scotty (makes me sound I’m dotty)
All vibes attunned, like speakers’ boom insist upon its bass
By which convinced of certainty men find that nous
To build a lasting house.
A Factor having means, computed well on what
A-frames of timber; tiles and journeymen supply him
What survey of the ground might best indemnify him
Beforehand to
What then pursued
How much the land might cost – not less than everything –
Said one insightful worker
Most humble-rightfully - a modest serving man
So that to grope for evermore for store; considering, I dropped,
Up-propped and inwardly foregathering on that greater good
To a bettter place no amplitude excels, exceeds, it
But seeks therefrom and tributary feeds it
Handing on more than hype and greater hope of placed above us
A Separated Standard
As though a suit of quality hung high on burnished hook
Of metal unalloyed yet dreadful strong to hold; of gold
Refined and sacerdotal
One passes under, through the fires, of Sovereign service
Classed by redoubt deniers catiff irons to be cast
Clasped of outliers on evil days, unhoused, discounted
He thus divides
By sharp incision penetrates bare heart of heart
Working an operation, brings regeneration
Dissevers accrued impurity, by a blade which cuts a way
To the Holy Saviour.