Guest Post: 'Sometimes'- a Poem by Thomas Crerar

 Sometimes

 

Sometimes songs need to fall silent
And sometimes dancing must end
For sometimes we must become hushed
The moment we comprehend

Sometimes the sun must disappear
And sometimes rain turns to snow
For sometimes when the clear becomes grey
It is then that we know

Sometimes laughing will transpose to tears
And sometimes wisdom will thin
For sometimes when in the shadow 

Is the point we enter in 

Sometimes life is but episodes of loss
Sometimes of dimming and rain
For sometimes it takes these dark things
For insight to ripen plain

And sometimes love goes to its cemetery plot
And sometimes its ghost will pain
But sometimes what we have lost
Will come to us once again

 

 This powerful and evocative poem is available in Thomas Crerar's book Every Broken Wing, available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Every-Broken-Wing-Poems-Life/dp/B089M6P29Q/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=1HJ2PM6E8BIQN&keywords=every+broken+wing&qid=1678914935&sprefix=every+broken+wing%2Caps%2C563&sr=8-1