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The Illuminating Shadow (Villanelle)
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The tallow guttering upon the stone,
Casts out a dark that swallows up the room,
We learn to walk the heavy void alone.
The shadow thickens to a heavy bone,
A crushing weight that stifles in the gloom,
The tallow guttering upon the stone.
We stumble through the night we call our own,
Where blackness weaves a tight and choking loom,
We learn to walk the heavy void alone.
Yet deep within the dark where grief is sown,
The sight adjusts inside the stifling tomb,
The tallow guttering upon the stone.
The blackness turns to light that has outgrown,
The blinding sun that withered flower and bloom,
We learn to walk the heavy void alone.
The shadow teaches what the day has known,
And burning pain dispels the final doom,
The tallow guttering upon the stone,
We learn to walk the heavy void alone.
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