The Parish Church of St John-at-Hampstead

1/1/2009

Year’s Mind Diana Raymond

Quietly they fall
Like leaves on the grass
The names remembered
As the years pass.

Like leaves, yes;
But something more –
Another time-scale
An open door.

A door which leads
To a world unknown
Whose voice is silence
Whose mystery flown.

Yet in the silence
A question stirs-
Does answer come
To the listeners?

What is abroad there?
A depth untold
The measureless love
Which time will unfold.