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Reconcilliation by Walt Whitman for nelson46
by waltz and capsize
10/09/2008, 8:34 AM
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Word over all, beautiful as the sky!
Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night, incessantly softly
wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world:
... For my enemy is dead--a man divine as myself is dead;
I look where he lies, white-faced and still, in the coffin--I draw near;
I bend down, and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.

Walt Whitman

nelson, the first time i read this, it travelled inward so deep, so fast. when i read this first time, the white face was my own. it was the face of me contentious, spiteful, despairing.

people can change.

may your better self find a comfortable chair at poemsfray.

waltz

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