The Long Grass
reimagining “Chì Mi Na Mòrbheanna” (1856)
Time moves / slow near the water, and
day breaks / so strange by the sea. I’ve been
lost here, / astray in the hours, adrift on the long days
since you’ve gone away.
Dark steals / early these evenings, and
night comes / to take and to hold. I’ve been
kept here, / enfolded by shadows, enshrouded—all love told,
all dreams gone so cold.
But sleep, love, safe in the gentle earth,
watched by hills and pine.
The summer days will dawn
when we rise together,
and down through the long grass / again we will run.
Fog slips / soft through these valleys, and
mist shapes / the ghosts of these days. I’ve been
left here, / betrayed and bewildered, beset by this dark haze,
this world gone to gray.
God sets / bounds on the water, and
God holds / the springs of the deep, and still
fresh tears, / decreed by the silence, descend to the salt sea
since you’ve gone from me.
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