Into the heart of sorrow

you have taken me,

with your wide wings of longing

and your sharp beak

of truth.

Into the heart of sorrow

we have flown

and we have known

love’s aching reality,

That none can give another

what she cannot give herself,

And none can be for another

what he cannot be for himself.

Into the heart of sorrow

we have travelled

and been unravelled

together.

 

This poem was arranged and performed as a song by Mary-Jane Negus in 2009 as part of Unravelling: Denmark Stories at Denmark’s Brave New Works Festival.