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After the Forgetting be Forgot (Yorkshire Dales)

By Alicia Beatrice

Softly they bloom,
smiling, upon the dale,
their frail hearts growing
fonder once more.
It is their time now
where it was once before,
as the wind undertow
blows their weariness away—

And they wake as they sway, 
they continue to wake; 
when the sleeping in me
no longer sleeps—
or forswears the sleeping in you, 
but calls to its kin,
residing where it did, once before

They will recall
when all has lain forgot
(in gentle kind),
Their memory
Their kin;
	and ours.

Their soul-spoken eternity 
liberated,
Nodding and singing
with that light 
which shines here
after the forgetting be forgot.

And so, transpired
upon the spire—
A gentler time,
now invited into this time
in transient hues of yellow
upon our grass so green,
so alive—

	And though it be
that I may shed a tear
I will no longer stay
in furtive sleep

—after the forgetting be forgot.
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