Victor Buhagiar Poet Free verse

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A Beacon of Hope

Like a shaft I fly,
a beam of glorious luminance,
I travel right into your bedroom
at the break of dawn.
"Wake up my friend,
my brothers are coming
to illuminate your day."
 
Minute follows minute
my duties I perform,
I peep through gaps
of a Venetian blind,
as someone on a bed
lies lazily supine.
I am his wake up call, 
dazzle straight 
into his heavy sleepy eyes.
"Get up my friend,
work beckons."
 
'Tis busy at the crèche
Where babies bare their hearts.
I breathe some warmth 
upon their frail frames,
paint rosy their cheeks
in the faint hope 
that some kind beings
would adopt 
these poor unsettled souls.
 
Through a windowpane,
glass stained with holy men,
I filter hopefully and in stealth,
on a cold spotlight on a marble slab
of someone long forgotten
in an unfrequented church.
 
Would you consider night
as my immortal enemy?
Oh no, my friend, oh no,
for in the darkness of the gloom,
over choppy and rough seas
I travel happily over peril
and show the way to safety 
to mariners lost at sea,
I am a beacon of hope.

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