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I Saw the Light

It traveled at my side for decades, unassuming demanding nothing while I, only mildly discontent, began again the search for words to trigger cataclysms of the mind designed for me to revel in. What other deep significance affords an ordinary man the vision that he needs to carry out some purpose for his life? But light was there beside me. And had I realized, inside. There was a flash of time-- mine to behold, and I not wise enough to summon it. There are no formulae; I have no advice for you and it is not for sale. But I heard it call, beating and rebounding like the pulsing of the sea across the pages of a history birthed and then reborn, for what is time? The answer matters not at all. I saw the light. It is with some indifference I watch the ages fade away like disappearance of the night. I saw the light! ~

Copyright © | Year Posted 2014




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Date: 6/26/2014 11:48:00 PM
A deep significant write
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Robert Ludden
Date: 6/27/2014 10:49:00 AM
Thank you!
Date: 6/26/2014 11:06:00 PM
This is lovely, Robert. I'm glad that you say the light...you also left us wondering about the nature of that light..wanting to know more. That is what good poetry does. Wonderful write. Philosophical...
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Robert Ludden
Date: 6/27/2014 10:39:00 AM
Thank you so very much. Light is like that...not nature in itself, but pointing the way.

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