Inspired by the Paintings of Joseph Clarke

In that land

the Invisible Land

time is a perpetual dusk of tired souls

full of unknown dreams

that have only ever glimpsed love

and did you, did you have the strength

in that Loveless Place, the realm below our feet

inhabited by things yet unformed

Love

a radiant bird of gold

out of reach

It wasnt Icarus that learnt the lesson

it was the Sun that wept

as he lay burnt

but he had the trust of a child

and do you, do you still have the trust

they say in that land above, our egos roam

and we choose to live well or selfishly

many sugared with a dogma that fills in every gap

but some still know the voice that calls them in dreams

and do you, do you still dream

still turn their faces to a hidden language

of

Light

a thousand times there my cries fell like rain

nourishing nothing

saltwaters of disturbance through the processions

Look at what I was

a shadow in form

one step behind

I was a place visited

I used to hear the ocean in my ear a song from a distant shell

then one day I went to her

dared to be lost

and swam into the deep watercolours of Life