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Jaime Fradera
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since 2000-11-25

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Where no tyranny is tolerable

0 posted 2003-04-25 06:24 PM

Sun Reverie

by Jaime Fradera

Now, after the storm,
the air is dry and clear.
Now, after the rain,
the Sun is shining,
as everyone knew it would do.

The Sun has been shining for eons.
On the morning I left home for good,
burning my bridges to the past,
on the day
I traded Security for Freedom,
the same Sun was shining.
And last time I was in love,
remembered as though in a dream,
the same Sun was shining.
And even in my darkest hours,
when most I needed someone,
and no one else seemed with me,
the Sun
was always by my side.

I remember
when I heard the news,
that Friday afternoon in second grade,
that President Kennedy was dead,
and how they sent us all home early,
and the feel of autumn sunshine
on my face.

This same Sun
shown on the D-day armada,
on Lee and Grant at aplomattax,
on all the fabled cities
of the past.
The Inca and Egyptians
built their temples for the Sun.
The ancient Greeks
traced the shadow of the noonday Sun
to measure the circle of the Earth,
as well
as the circle of the Moon.
And even Early Man,
"pitiful, his arms full of twigs,"
saw and felt
the same Sun shining,
on his raw and hostile world.

It intrigues me to think
that on a steaming afternoon,
many millions of years ago,
a time when tides ran higher,
and the Moon
was not so far away,
and the Earth
spun faster in its circle,
and all the stars by night
were in the wrong places,
How even way back then,
the same Sun was shining,
though the world it lit was different.

The Sun was there
before the Human race.
The Sun was there
when life on Earth began;
and even there
before the Earth was formed.

And there is no reason to doubt
that perhaps a million years from now,
though Earth might be
a barren, lifeless rock,
and humankind be long since dead,
or gone to seed,
that the Earth
will still be spinning,
the tides
will still be sweeping,
the glaciers,
still coming and going,
the seasons,
still ebbing and flowing,
the Sun,
still rising and setting,
the Moon,
still waxing and waning,
and the stars,
still tracing their ecliptic arcs
through astronomic spans
Of time
And space.

(c) copyright Jaime Fradera

QjQ
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since 2003-04-18

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1 posted 2003-04-25 06:33 PM

very good write!!!

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Dark Angel
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since 1999-08-04

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