Beauty In Black
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there dwells a darkness in us all
those shadows trembling faintly
to give our dearest debt its pall
and crimp us with its careful call
life weighed oft' south of saintly ...
each 'if' decided, slight or grand
comes with a thoughtful reason
and with intent or just off-hand
in light AND dark we understand
those answers and their season ...
why do we fear this darkness so
that comes like light, to guide us
there is a beauty there to know
a warmth, a depth, an afterglow
that shares that space inside us ...
the twilight falls in peaceful awe
and brings thru nights, so tender
the starlit nips of midnight's maw
our hazy dreams, unfettered, raw
that we, through sleep, surrender ...
we do not dwell there all the time
for light brings sight through vision
yet think of verse without a rhyme
we need that balanced id, sublime
and weigh things through decision ...
most our mem'ries start from black
though dwells there, naught a fear
just that strange and unknown lack
of light, yet light DID find the crack
and shined us straight through here ...
true darkness is not life's dear end
those depths we plumb thru death
but all bent souls that do descend
to where the lines and colors blend
'tween wrong and each dear breath ...
each dear, sweet, precious breath.
Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden | Year Posted 2021
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