The Rainbows End
Composed in Spring 1997

The Ocean waves, which crash and sprawl upon the rocks
On every side,
With the undulating swell, spawned by this morning tide,
I likened to a maidens breasts,
Which rise and fall as there she lays,
And draws upon life's sweetest breath.
The morning Sun now lights my face, advancing oér the hills behind,
Upon which if I gaze too long,
Can burn mine eyes with Light too strong, and yet, can softly warm
My face, if I am gentle in this place.

This place, the Cape, whereon I sit and pensively reflect,
my lofty Peak, my home.
My hopes, my dreams, my hurt, my pain, all were born, and borne
To manifest upon this day,
The golden hues, which strike my Cape, which reaches high and
Stands, a softened silhouette,
against a clear blue sky.
Have touched both man and child, on whom the Mother
Always smiled.
She hears me, my cries, my pain, my hurt, and all my tenséd anger,
Held until this time.

Time! time means nothing in this place, it simply rests to hold this moment,
This magick, and this mystery.
I should have faced upon Iona’s shore, my painful phrase resounded,
Out and lost upon the wind.
The depth of love, now sat the test, raised upon one sad last grasp,
To have, to Hold, to own.
Iona sent me here, my sweet fair isle so distant now that only dreams
, And fleeting memories remained.
She warmed my heart, and healed the wounds within my very Soul, and
Stroked my fevered brow. Go home my child! She whisperéd,
Go home! and search no more.
But sit a while! Upon my lap! and there,
before, your eyes will see all that has been,
And will so soon to pass.
Sit down, be stilled, be calmed and rest, let all within your anguished
Mind be blessed and there be laid to rest.
So many lose their way in time, and scurry, hurry, rush and speed
Their way into oblivion.
Driven on, by frenzied need, and Man’s possessive greed,
To have, to hold, to Own.

Time! time is just a phase we’re passing through, a string of moments,
Hung like pearls,
Upon the neck of beauties pride, and in each moment lies a feeling,
Sometimes missed, So often passed, deserving but a second glance, or thought,
To hold this moment sacred.
Treasure it! too soon its gone, yet here it is, as every moment from your birth,
It’s here, it’s now, it’s you.
Be calm! be still! hold it now! within your heart, for all too soon it will depart,
And be a distant memory.

My tears, which fell from burdened heart and bitter pain, which rose from loss
And gain, I hasten here to add.
All that I felt, on her fair shore, I felt then deep, and deeper still,
within me now As if they’d burned my Soul.
Would there? Could there ever be, a time to rise, within this pain, when my
Poor heart could learn to love again?
Could hold the pleasure of my dream, could share a moment or a pleasant
Thought of how life used to be?
In time! she said, somewhere within this darkness is a light, which shall come
Forth and lead you on, toward your destiny.

Go home my child! and rest, be still, and here and now, upon this hill,
With ocean all around.
I sit alone in tranquil thought, though ne’er alone as I have known, and rest
Becalmed, bestilled and wait.
And as the Sun oér yonder hill did cast his rays, upon her face, in later days
For oft I rested here.
And sought within this solitude, my teachings and my guidance, for too oft
Through life I’d sped.
That all I’d held in visions, or in dreams I’d often had of love, was here and now
This time, this Cape, this place.

Time, though left unmeasuréd, had passed so fast, for soon, as I looked on,
Three years had drifted by.
Since I, upon Iona’s shore, had caught a vision, and had held the words
That this would be.
Too soon? too quick? what does time hold, it cannot here be measuréd,
As man attempts to do.
So oft I’d listened to these words and feared them spoken in this way,
Too soon for it to last.
Twelve moons have I beheld in love, that I may well have missed, and in this
Time an Angels kiss was soft upon my lips.

Oh yes I am a tranquil man! who sits and ponders over life, and watches man,
In disbelief, quite often, it’s my folly.
To watch man in his sad regret, that he has lost all that he owned, though
nought of what he gained.
Remains within his heart or mind, so sadly thrown, so lost and blind,
To wallow in self pity.
I say, with but a smile, live here! live now! for all you seek to find you miss,
While soaring by.
Forever reaching, hard and strong, to learn and sing another song,
Hold fast what's in your heart.

For all I have, did come to pass, as I sat here in wait, and nothing more,
in all my dreams, Did I anticipate.
I live with passion, love with fervour, watch with retrospective eye,
though introspect Has led me here.
And in my soft and pensive times, of which I’m blessed to hold,
I’ve recognised’ With keener eye
That all that comes to pass in life, has found it’s moment to occur,
coincidence, No reason why, it happens at it’s chosen time.
Rush past it, just to lose it, never more returned, Deny it! It may steal from you,
Emotions never held.
Its time is now! It is a seed, to nurture and to love, its time is here, our Mother’s will,
Be calm! Be soft! Be still.
To let it pass, will bring regrets, to crush it now would be a sin,
just gaze upon it tenderly
And let the moment win.
Allow it deep into your heart, that it may touch your Soul,
no matter if it’s love or pain,
Or brings a heavy heart.
Allow it in, to make it’s change to life and soul and all that is,
let it be, to run it’s course,
For soon it shall depart.
All of these moments, make our life, a life which too oft passes by unnoticed or,
Unrecognised while searching for our life.

And in our times of solitude or moments of deep peace, we find these times,
and there Recall to ponder once again.
A life is made of moments, of happenings in time,
or thoughts and deep reflections, Mine are within this rhyme.
My life has been a rocky walk, with harbours for my storms,
where ships have passed, Though some have docked
and changed the course of time.

The highs have been magnificent, the lows, into the depths,
where man may learn, In darker times, the beauty of the Light.
I’ve held my share of magick, my prize of love anew,
I’ve held a breathless body
Until it journeyed through.

And every time I look at life, and look at what I have,
I feel a deep serenity, My Goddess calls it Love.
It comes, it goes, it ebbs and flows, and guides me through my storm.
But if your Heart embitters you, then love you’ve never known.
For I have loved, so deep and true, and though that love has passed,
it was a moment in my life which did not want to last.
I cannot master time or tide, my Mother holds the wand,
but all these moments, And much more, have forged and crafted me.
It’s that which makes us all we are, and that which makes us whole,
I am now who I chose to be, I live my life that way.

And all that I have held in life, has brought me to this day,
A day of soft remembrance, A day which holds me dear.
If all these things that I have known, and held within my life,
should not have happened Or occurred in any other way.
I may well not be standing here, upon this hill and gazing down,
warmed by the Sun, In light and love today.
To choose our path, or to be chose, I know not which is true,
but ne’er regret, nor Lose the love of all the things we do.
To live our life by natures code, to give more than receive,
to help and understand in Life, and see all we believe.

For Light is Love, and Life is Truth, it’s here not round the bend,
So live your life, In Love today,
Not at the Rainbows End!

Maélwys /|\