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RSWells
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since 2001-06-17

Posts 2533

0 posted 2001-06-18 10:39 PM

A single candle in a darkened room,
Doth offer hope despite the greater gloom
And cause life's focused eye to settle there,
The tiny flame so used to fight despair.

The fragile filament to wind so fickle,
The slightest wisp of breath to wick will tickle,
Refuses with tenacity dark's cloak,
Yet clings against it's end, a death of smoke.

Instead it stands alone against the night,
Indeed it seems to amplify it's light
And in it's single function it is shown,
Defiance against the dim but stands alone.

And so adjust do we to it suffice,
To keep the little flame at any price,
For it is all we need to carry on,
Until reliev'd spirit sees blazing dawn.

Look ye! Look ye! From there into my heart,
See thee the flame that's here and won't depart?
Tis hope which won't extinguish in your night,
Now use it please to be Loves guiding light.

Sunshine

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2001-06-18 10:50 PM

Aha! I've seen a candle
do just this
for it had sweet
a moment of bliss...

Well done Sir!

Poet deVine

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

2 posted 2001-06-18 11:30 PM

Ah..Shakespeare was a Texan? I bet he was!!! this is lovely.

Fancy
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since 2001-06-05

Posts 189
TN/USA

3 posted 2001-06-18 11:50 PM

..."Tis hope which won't extinguish in your night"....what an awesome promise of love...oh were I to ever hear such words of love spoken...the hopeless romantic...

Mysteria