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Open Poetry #40

Perpetual Night

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
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0 posted 2007-03-29 02:11 PM

    Land of  Perpetual Night
    [On the ‘Runaway American
       Dream’ (part III)]

   Winter retreats
   along its lonely ways
   through the tangled maze
   of human discontent,
   in this land of minds
   infinitesimally small,
   I must wonder where
   all fine dreams went?!

   Here in this dry place,
   this empty space,
   I stand alone
   as reason’s last sentinel
   in perpetual war
   with the loss of all hope
  desperate to believe
      in something
   beyond this hollow shell
      of life;
   speech without sound,
   sound without motion,
   silent screams of doubt...
   I see spires reaching
       for the stars
   to grasp only air...
   and, I am left with
   the endless stillness
   of my soul’s
   perpetual night!

TerryW
Senior Member

since 2000-03-23

Posts 779
Louisville, Mississippi, USA

1 posted 2007-03-29 02:13 PM

Very deeply moving, and wonderfully well written!

Loved it!

Terry

~you reached inside, you touched my heart,
and I am all the better for it~
Terry A. Woodson, Jr.

Earth Angel
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since 2002-08-27

Posts 40215
Realms of Light

2 posted 2007-03-29 02:31 PM

..."and, I am left with
   the endless stillness
   of my soul’s
   perpetual night!"

~ A gripping closing to an exceptional write!

I felt your words to my very core.

Linda

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