Monday, December 17, 2012

Waiting in the Dark



 We sit
     still
     waiting
          in the gathering
          growing
          darkening
     dark

Images of
     horror
     slide seamlessly
     in and around
     a mosaic of
          tragedy
     faces
          shaded with
          the textures of
          humanity
          joined now
          by stark
          white

Hope stretched
     gossamer
     pulled
          distorted
          thinned
     by loss
     upon heart breaking
loss

     not lost through
misplacement
          waylayment
          delayment
     but taken
          wrestled away
          stolen
     all but
               gone.
         
We sit
     still
     longing
     waiting
          for dawn
     Willing
          a single
          candle’s
               light.
     

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