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Ever Closer to Death
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Ever Closer to Death |
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JL Member Ascendant
since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128Texas, USA |
Ever Closer to Death An unlit candle’s wax fraught for warmth… As day moves into its night’s illusion… Lifeless in time it awaits its lighted wick… Aflame once again, nestled beneath a bright yellow flickering of heat… Beckoning to live by means of gleaming yellow-illumined tongue and wick… Alive with harrowing heat yet glowing as it seems eternal… Melting away its living with every flickering glimmering… And, in the slightest, bruising the elements it must barrow To strive… Unlit - alive, yet dead to its life… Lit and brightly burning: alive, yet drawing nearer, and nearer, ever closer to death… |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
If we don't burn with some kind of passion, we will never know how brightly we might glow, in order to give light that others might see... |
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Voiceless Senior Member
since 2001-02-19
Posts 686Under the stars upon the wind |
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness ~Chinese Proverb Freedom is not Free (Korean War memorial) |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
what a thought-provoking write this inspires me JL |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
this JL, was absolutely beautiful and is a reminder to everyone that the whole of life, is not about what we take, but what we contribute...and death to me, is not ugly or sad, but one step beyond what we know now... Truly magnificant write my friend. |
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froggy Senior Member
since 2003-06-23
Posts 1893Michigan |
Enjoyed this read very much. :-) |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
JL What a suberb metaphor! I agree with LeeJ about death though....in fact, there is a brighter light there.  |
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*Alli4000*
since 2004-03-21
Posts 3188The World of Poetry |
Wow ...  ~Alli~ Happy 2005! |
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