I saw.........
.......and I saw.......
Things
without names...
without number...
.........and I felt..............
oh,   and I felt..........
....yes....
anger
his anger
their anger
could I have known it?

sensitive
gentle
caring.........
but   under.....
the passion
the gut-heaving anger..
........seething..........
.........volcanic.........
oh, he concealed it,
but I saw....
the wisps of smoke...
heard the rumblings....

only summer storms?

and behind the anger
the bottomless pit
of pain....
and longing......
and I sensed the chasm
.......danced of its edge
armour'd
and visor'd
with love.
 
 

!
the eruption took me
by stunned....
incredulous...
Surprise!
unaware
it was there
and yet
I saw....
and I saw....
and I felt.....

should I have known?
 

© 1994, Carmel Pacey Digby

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