Spring 2010 Vol. 20, No. 1 Special Edition: Psychedelics, Death and Dying
In Our Heart’s Love
(To Thunder, our lion-dog, 1983-1995)
Within the bliss of paradise lives the torment of hell
Within the life of every birth lives the force of death
Within the love of the lover lives the chance of hate
Within the bloom of fragrant rose lives the stench of rot
Within the summer’s heat lives the winter’s frost
Within the measurement of time lives the eternal
Within our present form lives the seed of our next
In our heart’s love for you,
dying creature, you live forever
(This poem originally appeared in Ms. Kleefeld’s book The Alchemy of Possibility: Reinventing Your Personal Mythology, Merrill-West, 1998.)
