(Isaiah 50: 4, 5 / Song of Solomon / John 11: 23 27 / Revelation 21: 3, 4)
Out of Cold Shadows On A Highland Moor
Will You Come Walking To Me As Hard Rains Pour?
Beneath A Tree of Life I Stood and Swore
To Bring You My Body & Every Beauty, It Bore
To Reach You Before Death Swung Its Door
and Before The Soft Footfalls Towards Forever
Out of Dense Fog and Swirling Mists
Will You Come To Give Me A Beloved's Kiss?
On A Journey of Danger That I Would Risk
But Between An Embrace and A Heartbeat's Bliss
I Stepped On Something That Hissed
and Hacked At Heels of Soft Footfalls Headed Towards Forever
Angus
Anguish, Anxious, Angst & Animosity Is All Around!
I'm Laboring, My Laird & Longing, Limping & Loosing Ground
I've Steered Clear of Brackish Boggs That Would Sink Me Down
But Had To Wade In A Stream While Evading Hell's Hounds
who Hunted Soft Footfalls Hastened Towards Forever
So Past Briar & Bramble & Beyond Wild Beasts I Am Bound
To A Lamp's Glimmer, Like That From The Kings & Crowns'
Are You There Yet, Just A Mile Beyond Miracle-Mound?
I'm Nearing, But The Route Seems To Wound & Wound
I'm Struggling To Keep You In Sight, Soul and Sound
Oh, I Need Your Face & Faith I Thought I'd Found
following Your Feats of Soft Footfalls Towards Forever
(for I'm Tied To You, Like Time Is To All Future's Tether )
Tho' Heightened Sense of Hope Made Her Braver
And Wearing The Emerald Heirloom-Honor He'd Gave Her
She Roamed Where Even Rocks & Moss Were Suspicious Neighbors
& The Heather and Air Which Turned Too Harsh For Flavor
Hosted A Bitter Helpless-Hereafter-Taste To Savor
that Stalled The Soft Footfalls Towards Forever
Pain Thrusts Thru Her Like A Thousand Sabers!
As Thoughts of Trust Turns Into Thoughts of Traitors
She's Raw & Hampered & Needs A Hero, A Savior
To Lift Her Cares Like A Highlander Hoists Cabers
Oh, Why Won't Her True Love Not Come To Claim Her?
with Sweet Brogue & Soft, Sure Footfalls Towards Forever
On The Cusp of Welcome Home Or Casting Claymores
On The Brink of A War and Between Border Reivers
On The Ridge of Reason Or Sharpened Rage-Razors
On The Brim of Horizons' Sun-Brooch & Star Braziers
On The Tip of Tomorrows Lit Like Torch-Flamed Tapers
Across A Vastness Un-Veered Thru Veils of Vapors
Verily He Vowed, Vaunting Soft Footfalls Towards Forever '
On The Gist of Where A Gather Melts Hate's Glacier
On The Nexus of Need & Knowing True Love's Nature
On The Passage of Innocence To Please Forgive Us Prayers
On The Way To Meet Wide Open Arms of Our Maker
On Edge of Evening and Eden's Promised Favors
stretched The Trail of Soft Footfalls Towards Forever
There Lay A Storm-Tossed Loch Between The Rifts
A Charcoal Sky That Seemed Heavy & Propped By Stilts
She Was At The Limits of Her All That She Could Do Lists'
She Was On The Verge of Vanishing Into Vanity's Myths
While Searching Between Urgency and An Internal Eclipse
ventured the Interim of Soft Footfalls Towards Forever
She Took One Last Stiff Uisge Beatha' Spirit-Sip To Lips
She Heard The Last, Lone Note of A Bagpipe's-Signal, Lilt
Envisioned The Strong Stance & Clan Colors of His Kilt
and The Rich-Hued-Tow Head, Which Shone Like Gilt
as He Strode The Soft Footfalls Towards Forever
(Her Eyes Closed But Her Course Kept At Canter)
Eyes Closed Tho' That's Not Why It Had Gone Black
She Can Nay See How To Finish Thru To Their Trek-Pact
She Must Rest On A Narrow, Not-Well-Beaten Path
Will He Cover The Distance From What Her Last Legs Lack?
Even If She Has Stopped & Dropped Dead In Her Tracks
Will He Come To Find and Bring Her Unfalteringly Back?
from Earth-Packed, Soft Footfalls Towards Forever?
Her Eyes Closed, But True Love's In-Sight, Closes Never
He Found Her, Eyes Closed Swollen, Squeezed Into Slits
He Saw The Puffed Flesh Where The Poison Had Been Spit
He Saw Her and Traced The Tears She'd Held Back Then Spilt
Saw Her Lovely Face Framed By Curly Dark-Red, Wet-Wisps
& Finger-Nail Marks Where Her Hands Clenched Into Wee Fists
Formed & Fashioned Her Soft Footfalls Towards Forever
(His Bonny Lass, Woven In His Tartan & Tam's Token Feather)
He Saw The Emerald Heirloom Wrapped Around Her Wrists
But He'd Not See In This World, Her Twin Sparkles, Again AGlist'
His Own Eyes Became Mirrors of A Flooded Dam That Split
He Took On The Burden That She Had Endured This Tryst
Yet He Could Not Bear The Thought of Her Feeling AJilt
As He Carried Her Where Clouds Covered Them Like Quilts
Each Sorrowed Step & Stone & Step Spanned Breach & Breath & Built
the Bridge That Balances & Blankets: Footfalls Towards Forever
For Theirs Was A Loyal Love That Would Nay Suffer Guilt
Nor Wander, Nary Wrangle, Nor Waste, Nor Wrong, Nor Wilt
Whether Slow In Coming, Or of A Moment Passing Swift
Not Even An Enemy's Blade Plunged In His Side To Its Hilt !
could Halt His Soft Footfalls Towards Forever
Even In Whispered Woe & Weeping That Winds Would Nay Lift
Or Thru A Last Dance, Last Duty, Lost Dreams, Or Long-Ago-Drift
Even In All The Combined Separation Or An All Alone-Shift
Even Thru Gut-Struck-Grief Or The Unknown Aye, Even If
Out of Cold Shadows' Desperation Over A Highland Crag-Cliff
slips The Soft Footfalls Towards Forever
Out of Cold Shadows On A Highland Moor
Will You Come Walking To Me As Hard Rains Pour?
Beneath A Tree of Life I Stood and Swore
To Bring You My Body & Every Beauty, It Bore
To Reach You Before Even Death's Read Banns Door
and Right Before, Our Soft Footfalls Towards Forever
♪♫ Out of Cold Shadows, On A Highland Moor
Will You Wake For Me, When The Full Moon Soars?
Beneath A Tree of Life, I Stood and I Swore
To Bring You Back, Body N Breath & The Beauty It Bore
Whether To Walk On Water Or Just Footprints On A Shore
in Soft, Footfalls Towards Forever To Explore
yea, In Soft Footfalls Towards Forever Still Furthermore ♪♫
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(Isaiah 50: 4, 5 / Song of Solomon / John 11: 23 27 /
Genesis 3: 4, 13 15, 24 / Revelation 21: 3, 4)