GIRLKIND Sinead O'Brien

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Eternity is not never-ending, ever-lasting It is in the stillness In walls, fences, liminal spaces Remember when the virgin rock and the statues come to stop Stay under - go beneath Til sun will wet the frost And fog make fogginess for us Muddy the visions for our innocence Til the tide approach To clean the beach for new feet to print the sand And walk amongst the rock Long to test the traps Would little ankles snap Dialogues still cease to stop Come neon lights and burn the fog When the virgin rock The statues come to stop Eternity be Of an evening overseen On a moment in between or underwhelming I have misunderstood The ever-lasting experience Of Girlkind and Humanhood You have seen nothing yet Eternity is so much less than I had thought A long withstanding single moment An unacknowledged act A leg caught on the trap And would the ankle snap To free the snare from the fawn Or the thought from the clock Not a profound concept More likely to be found in the falling down of hair The movement slow or fast through thickened air That we may see true the shapes And real the time the action takes For great movements to be made Longing for rest against the watch We wait until the minute passes And surely it does as it always has done But this does not quieten our widening eyes Our broadening smiles Nor put an end to our quest To unearth truth and bury lies Nor dampen the life inside of our heads Nor the need for the stopping of the passing of the moments Do not be afraid of silent places Do not wait for eternal gates to open Patience is outdated here The secrets of the ages tell all else But you have seen nothing yet You have seen nothing yet It may be time soon to celebrate Our strandedness in the liminal space Put a word to each new object here And make a face to end all faces A face to face the questioning And a smile for the coming spring If spring is here what spring was before And a step into a new direction A look to stop the suffering Return the bullet to its owner Place the sword back in the stone It may be soon but may be quite long I cannot tell you All the signs I see point wrong We have seen nothing yet We have not seen anything yet In Humankind and in Girlhood.