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FIRES IN THE DARKNESS

 

Sitting full-eyed

In the front seat

A gape at the wonders passing by

If I had not tasted life complete

Could be tempted beyond discreet

Yet today the world is secure

In that I have no fear

Of coming blank verse announcing a search

For another of these lives unfurled

            No demand for another love

            To procure and nurture

            No compulsion to beat the world

            At the game of rapture

            Probable cause to think of nature

            And know the end points of birth and death

            Not attempt to leap

            Over yet another forest

            Despite the bleak blackness of loss

No competition so desirous

No beauty so compelling

To allow another youth

For the one who has lived it

            Maybe a branch to hang on

            To suspend over the chasm and pretend

            To lay with stars of love

            Again shining in eyes next to me

            To believe perfection

            Can be achieved in harmony

                        Until the lightening finds me

                        Cracks the limb that holds me

                        Fires the darkness

                        With an eternal glow

                        That seems to come as her eyes close              

         161119.01

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