---
title: Vigil
description: Is there something on the other side? poem
image: https://broomwatr.com/hubfs/Vigil_broomwatr.png
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# Vigil

[Broomwatr](https://broomwatr.com/blog/author/broomwatr)

 January 14 2024

[Poetry](https://broomwatr.com/blog/tag/poetry)

*\[read these words out loud, your voice gives them power\]*

My eyes have seen such tonight,  
My heart can't feel tomorrow

What does sunlight feel at dusk?  
How do we we bear your sorrow?

If time is a river flowing on and on,  
Oh, a handful could we borrow?

A small pinprick to see the deep  
For darkness is to follow

Oh I see the the window to the soul  
Its etched into your being

Is there something on the other side?  
What is it that your seeing?

Wake and tell me, I must know!  
don't think that I can't bear it

Is there meaning in this pain?  
Some shifting of the scale?

Some miracle performed at dawn  
Through fog or down the hall?

A heart that slowly beats to life  
While yours begins to fall?

Tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me!  
Though I don't have the right

To ask of you these questions  
In your never-ending night

No, I will be your angel, rising  
And hold you under wing

To sit with you in silence  
This vigil with your name

Share with you some essence  
A torrent may it flow

To be with you amidst the wind  
To watch you as you go

This is my vigil, I am your witness  
I am your witness.

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