The life and times of a total freak of the arts...
And you all thought that all I was good for were a few lines of emo rhyme...
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By Candle's Light
This sea of darkness presses
All about my candle dear
Light and warm in its essence
And its death my deepest fear
How can I make it always burn?
What is that on the edge of night?
It is a fellow traveler
But her taper is not dimly bright
Now I see what must be done
She has no light to go by
Candle outstretched, closer she comes
Wick to wick the flame unites
She blinks and smiles at me
And we give a Japanese nod
For already she can see
The next one to pass it on
The darkness about cringes
At this flickering dawn
It tries to press the fringes
But we still hurry along
Another light joins our twane
Leaping almost between them
Such joy on a lightened face
Who’s eyes before were so darkened
Now black fingers draw inward
The light meaning to drown
But they are pulled back, burned
As we reach a darkling crowd
Rushing to meet the first mark
To touch the long flameless wicks
A cheer rises from the dark
As my gaze is transfixed
For one by one the fire is spread
Like a river streaming of flame
And a joy to my heart this sight sends
For my small light became night’s bane
And as if in answer to this
Threat of light made blinding bright
The shadow writhes wraithlike hiss
As rising draco shrikes dreadful night.
But strong is the light to resist
An army, with swords of flame
Burning away the inky mists
A luminous will to darkness maim
From the fielded burning stars
Forth comes a swirl of power
A pulsing spiral, spreading bars
Forms a nimbus rising tower
The greasy dark spreads to cover
Nearly winking out the points
As the luminous mass hovers
And forms a ball, a focused point
But when shadow seems to triumph
To gloat in victory perceived
The light suspended erupts
And expands floods blindingly
The void fills with the violent rays
Bursting spreading forming anew
Forms dire, fierce, angelic, fey
They rend the darkness, breaking through
It screams, a thousand wailing keens
Of greed-filled hopes betrayed,
And there is no trace to keep
Luminous flights drive it away
And there revealed to us bearers,
Of the flickering birth stars,
Lies the land we did wander
But with no darkness that mars
A new life has been given to us
The people about me do laugh and sing
And my soul is flood with happiness
They walk in the grass sit ‘neath trees they can now see
And I plant in the earth the thing that was
The start and source of all this
And there upon the hilltop
Where we fought the dark
Stand the candles that we held
Somehow they hardened and meld
And together flowed to form a blazing torch
A reminder to the new world
And a light against the dark
and lest we forget
the meaning meant
a candle alone can hold the dark at bay
but it's light must spread to break the day
-The Revig
