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mcclain
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since 2000-03-22
Posts 13


0 posted 2000-03-26 11:50 PM


They never tell you
it's not a dark night of the soul
but a season breath-held for months
far north of the heart to a silence
windless in darkness
sucked hollow as teeth
of all daybreak, brittle as ice
but more clear, thicker, pitiless

They never tell you
dread is not trembling or sickness
but stillness
in darkness, windless
the frozen wastes at the pole of your life
where you crouch under stars themselves ice
flecks floating due north of the soul
long past comprehending incomprehensible cold

Why didnt they tell you
it lasts not a night but a lifetime
drab as the comfort of fools

Why do they name sole
what's plural and common: dark everydays
of all souls who dare pay attention

Why do they speak of one night
and not of the first, as if
morning would cure it
As if that were the worst of what waits
indifferent in darkness to how you fear
suffering thaw blister through you

Beneath northern lights long despaired of their windprism brillance ablur only
now as you drowse deeper down shock melting slow shock of truth




[This message has been edited by mcclain (edited 03-27-2000).]

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Isis
Member Ascendant
since 1999-09-06
Posts 6296
Sunny Queensland
1 posted 2000-03-27 12:32 PM


They never told me you could write this way!
Wonderful work, full of the mystery of cold and dark.  

 There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self...
~Isis~
(Goddess - Sovereign of the Spirit)



Jannel
Member
since 2000-01-18
Posts 492
Muncie, IN, USA
2 posted 2000-03-28 01:10 AM


beautiful. i really loked the repitition of "they never told you" this was full of great images. wondderful work.
jannel

 Dont wake the dead,
Wake the dying,
Don't change what you've said,
Change what you're saying.

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