Steadfast Lighthouse
STEADFAST LIGHTHOUSE
Emergence of a lighthouse brick by brick
My grandfathers would flick the switch
Oh how many generations would glow the wick
Whilst sentinel grandmothers wait up and stitch
Oh how taxing the work of day and night
Pulling together with mortar and mortality
The responsibility to keep generations burning bright
A steadfast lighthouse bespeaks of my vitality
One stormy eve with whiplash waves crashing in
Achieves salvation or a smithereen-soaked raft
A creator washes away generational sin
The spirit-keeper of the windswept draft
Candles of two grandfathers that sailed the sky
Without them, oh family, there’d not be you and I
7/21/2017
Rhyme Form
*Both of my grandfathers helped to build a lighthouse.
Copyright © Kim Rodrigues | Year Posted 2017
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