Varáeldur Poem by Nick Perritt

Close your eyes
See the light
Dark light on closed lids.
Open your mind
Find your love
She smiles behind soft lips.
Sink deeper under consciousness
Feel sound under water
Thick fog pressing on your ears
On your eyes
Block your nose
Pool of tears
Leaking heart
Wrinkled toes.
She seeks you out to lose your mind
She sees you now behind her eyes
Her music flows into your sound
You see her eyes within your mind.
She fills your every breath
She breathes life into death
She smiles at flying light
She lights the dark in night.
You feel her sighing
You hear her singing
Like white gulls calling
On white shores flowing
To a swift sun rising
On a far green country
Deep into the west.
She sings you into sleep
Fast falling into deep
Behind closed eyes she lingers
Inside your mind she enters
Never leaving
Ever breathing
Life into your death.
She floats on the air of your lungs
And sinks underneath.
Her light reflecting
Through your hearts water
Onto dreaming walls
And now you know
In your heart she glows.
Before you die she grows inside
Your fading mind
Her falling smile
Your dying sound
Of angels round
Ethereal arms
Open wide.
You find her
Inside you
Below you
Beside you.
The grey veil fades
To silver clouds
A white horizon
A distant sound,
Of a white sea calling
Shadows falling
Fear now passing
Only sleeping.
Open your eyes.