From Distant Shores

Evening arrives
waves caress the shoreline
  We wait here while 
        those on distant shores
  live, play and work
Sunlight gives way
         to moonlight
                         light to darkness
     Starlight
provides liberation and
           a brief respite from toil
News from distant shores
takes time to reach us
    before it does 
we will have become
       ready to receive it
our eyes open once more
we can see through  a brick
        wall in time
From distant shores come
    tales of hope and 
                  tales of desolation
The sorrow we hear of 
is the sorrow we feel
    the orb which rules
the night 
Keeps shining..........
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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Dietrich Avatar
January 18, 2011 at 9:03 PM
reminds me of "the best of times, the worst of times" Elegant writing as always, Matt. PING PONG!!
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