Shelly Bryant
Shelly currently splits her time between Singapore, where she teaches literature at a private university, and Shanghai, where she studies Chinese. ÊShe is enjoying the lifestyle of living in two worlds at once, and relishes the opportunity soak in two very interesting cities and cultures. Her works have appeared in the anthology Finding Your Wings (2003), the poetry journal A Galaxy of Verse (2006), on the Babel website (1998), and the literary e-zine Bakery of Poets (current issue). She has poems due out in A Galaxy of Verse and Writing Edge soon.
In Eternity's Eye
In eternity’s eye
where there is no time
what separates one moment,
one event, from another?
Father and son, atop the mount
Father and Son, atop the mount
On no account
A flowing fount
Will they turn back
Of bloody sweat
Though a lamb they lack
Worse is coming yet
Up they continue side by side
He climbs up his path, now alone
A knife he spied
Silence cold as stone
In Father’s hand
Forsaken now
Does he understand?
He fulfills his vow
Youthful eyes rounded large with fright
Human salvation to ensure
The boy bound tight
Hand held secure
Command now dropped
Here, now, it stops
The knife is stopped
The hammer drops
Copyright ©2007 by Shelly Bryant