New Light

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    New Light

    I heard a whisper which shattered the silence,

    I saw a light in the pitch night,

    I felt a flicker of fire against my cool cheek,

    I could taste a smile I had forgotten,

    And smelt the new spring air in winter.

    *

    You were the voice in my ear, and I sighed,

    You were the candle as I slept, and I dreamed,

    You were the arms which held me as I sobbed,

    You were the sweet nothings I kept close,

    You were the new dawn after the sun died.

    *

    I had surrendered and succumb,

    I was afloat and lost,

    You had surrendered and overcome,

    Drifted and come home...

    We were birds of a feather,

    Dancing different steps to the same waltz,

    A discordant harmony,

    Disjointed and identical. 

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    DrewMcNee commented on New Light

    05-21-2010

    Wonderful last two lines! Consider changing the title of the piece so as to not to preempt the delight in finding them.
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    Narrator

    05/21/2010

    Thank you very much! I did struggle with the title... the previous one was too unrelated and this one, as you say, sort of spoils the ending...

    A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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