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The Grail Keeper

I watched your life blood

Fall into the cup

It didn’t spill over

And it didn’t stop

 

A constant level of red dismay

A grieving litany I hear in my soul

Right up until this very day

Where the cup wants to take every drop

 

Bleeding you dry like a husk

Of everything you have got

Is this so that I live with the stain

Of retrospective treachery

 

But it is not something I have ever forgot

This remembrance is passed down through the ages

Of Grail Keepers, beggared and lost

Forgotten, unknown, paying the cost

 

Hidden in plain sight sometimes

Until it is our time to move along

We guard an eternal love

That outstrips existence itself

 

Though it would grant you healing if you asked

The treasure it holds is beyond compare

Containing the teachings of the soul

The movement of your blood

 

And the story of the universe untold

It never forgets or regrets

And remembers all the reasons

As to why you are loved

 

*****

 

What can I say? To me, this image transcends everything. Personally, it is one of my most meaningful and favourite images I have ever taken. If you were to ask me what I believed in, what I thought was precious in this world, I would say that this image represented my world completely, and who I am.

 

There is a dialogue happening here, with this Cup. There is a presence here, other than me, and the Cup has called it down.

 

When this happens and I am fortunate enough to witness it, feel it, experience it, I need nothing else.

 

A Grail Keeper protects and keeps this love safe. A Grail Keeper keeps the Light alive. My Love and Blessings to all.

 

Taken at Wilmington Church, East Sussex, UK. And yes, this is a photograph, not AI.

Why do I need a fake Grail when reality is like this?

 

And this is the point, don’t you think. Just believe for once, let joy into your life.

 

I have paired this with Era’s “The Mass” as this is what this image is, transubstantiation.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV2yzuNTHnQ

 

And if you would like to see more of my work, visit my website at:

 

www.shelleyturnerpoetpix.com

 

 

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Uploaded on June 12, 2024
Taken on December 25, 2019