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ODE TO FIREFLIES
Night meadows
The uncharted
Darkness of yearning
Shadows
All fires out
Gone! Except
Your little
Engines
Of love
Declaring
Announcing--
The biggest
Soul
In the smallest
Chest
Did I say "soul?"
That formless
Entity
Of light[?]
O, you lovers
Of pyralis fire!
Unflaggingly
Protesting
A fallible
G o d
Whose career
Is to disbelieve
To unsanction
Your short-
Lived affair
For you put humans
To shame
Those who huddle
To artificial fire
The unlit souls
Conspire
Nothing curbs
The inaudible
But determined
Voice
From your small
Luminous hearts
Nothing!
Not even
The massive death
Of stars
In the belly
Of blind
Night!
You see, it's easy
To snuff
The sap & spark
Out of a human heart
Who lives in a herd
Fooled
By his Lord
I've seen power &
Violence
In cold blood
I've seen fake
Emotions stirred
By high voltage
Wire, but
None can compare
To your cool
Flare and
A perfect love
Consumed
By each other's
Fire!
:june '05
art by: Sheila Sullivan |
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