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Darkness Enlightens
08 November 2006

Where was summer,
a day of warmth and growth.
This land of opportunity,
where the blood does burn in amour.

As to movement away from where,
this internal darkness enlightens.
To a happy place, the one to begin.

No begging, no pain to endure,
for she was fortune, a beauty enriched.
Not without sorrow, but still not regret.

Another light, the shadow neither to await,
because of this element of hopeful deliverance.
Away, clearly away, unknown, yet hidden no more.

Her love, her happiness, his own to escape.
The eternity, a place to embrace in fortune,
tomorrow as unto this day of energy.
Relaxed and beyond sure burden, arrival at last.

"He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness
was under his feet. He made darkness his secret place;
his pavilion round about him were dark waters and
thick clouds of the skies. For thou wilt light my candle:
the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness."
Psalms 18: 9, 11, 28 KJV

© 2006 Christopher W Herbert (a New Zealand Poet)

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