The Uncompleted Man
The Uncompleted Man
I saw an uncompleted man
a wanderer in delicious orchards, alone
awaiting wholeness and heaven
perhaps a woman to make him whole
gladdened celebrations were held on high
when an uncompleted woman came
and bells to tunes of fullness sang
for a journey begun again
a fabulous journey was their roaming
for uncompleted life held sway
over sweet inaudible murmurings
of darkness swamped by light of day
the friendship missing pieces helped to find
and made a lovely level whole, by and by,
while the shy and friendly darkness
went along for the ride and the love
so it’s to the darkness that he turns,
the nonetheless uncompleted man,
when his dreams of buried gold unfold
into life, the darkness he asks again…
…timidly again about wholeness and heaven
fullness, emptiness, completeness, and gold
and darkness tells him that only a small child
could understand
make the male and the female one, she says
let the male not be male, and the female
not female—for then you will not look outside
for completeness
so he-she looks the darkness in the eye,
like a diner ready for the main course
**
Tony Macelli, poem and image.
From: The Void That Shines. Where words don’t reach. 2022
This book is available in 3 editions on Amazon. Each poem is illustrated with a painting or graphic. It is also accompanied by a series of quotations by other authors on the same theme as the poem. Organised along a spiritual journey, here are over 60 new poems, 60 new colour illustrations, and 60 collections of quotations. Enjoy the verse, the visuals, and the quotes on your own journey!