Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, COMMUNION, by DOROTHY DEZOUCHE


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COMMUNION, by                    
First Line: The maimed in heart remember not their scars
Last Line: A brother who is stumbling through the dark.
Subject(s): Compassion


The maimed in heart remember not their scars
Yet hearing a hurt brother play the flute,
May pause and feel again the slow, acute,
First anguish of the inward-swinging bars.
Then sightless eyes remember dawn and stars
The lips know suddenly that they are mute
The feet recall they once were resolute
And swift upon bright paths that climbing mars.

Oh, mind which once was slow to understand
And dull to head and careless and morose,
Flame now with swift compassion, spark to spark.
Lest pity break the heart, stretch forth the hand
Through cold and mist and blackness, and draw close
A brother who is stumbling through the dark.





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