Dónall Dempsey - Heart's Delight

The kite
clutched to your chest

as if your heart
had escaped

glorying in yellow
& red

your fingertips
releasing it to the sky

where like
a prayer

searching for a God
it knew

it flew

like a wish

lost between clouds

now impossible now real

my heart now too
dancing next to you

we chase each other
across a vast immensity of blue

kite tails
twirling like laughter

spiralling with delight

cutting the sky
into shapes

that shift
and change

entangled now

brought back to earth

out of breath

we run

gather the other’s
heart

into our trembling
hands

souls embodied
now

still in the sky.

Dónall Dempsey

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