Beyond

.

She dares to rise

through molten rock

cutting loose

from the unforgiving core

of gravity

free of the burning bush

and the howl of the tempest.

.

Into the open sky she flies

past moon and sun,

the spin of stars

beyond the fabled edges

of the cosmos

.

until no longer up or down

nor right or left

she spirals forth

into the numinous arms

of the Beloved.

.

.

© 2020, 1976  Betty Hayes Albright 

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(A revised version of an old poem from 1976.)

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