COME AND GONE

COME AND GONE

the elections
have come
and gone
      see it
feel it

bandwagon upon
bandwagon
hustings, every.
shred of bunting
melring away
dissolved

     call it entropy
call it magic
call it
crazy stilted
carnival

from morning
to night the
voting lines snaking
across fields, along
sideroads down
highways
and now

night having arrived
darkness duly delivered
                     we sleep
dream
     make love

are
  transported hither

united
       together

one heart, one soul
suspension of borders
boundaries
parties, divisions

until
the Sun

great absolutist,
prime
     god of heaven

must come.
searching, scanning
for all
      outside his frame,
not in his name

not within his sphere, of
his echo chamber, subject
to
  supreme vindication

out to
unravel
all the night ravelled

lest
   a spectral feeling,
rise like a mist, begin
to hold sway

all
  (that is
said )
       must find
its way into play
as deep apparition

ghost
of
   the to come

by sublime
thinker’s stone
from
   parchment to
wall
   by key and
by code

delivered to us all
as
    sweet transformation

end
to

each tyranny of light,
masquerade
                 of same