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.
