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Your Darkness Punishes But Does Not Win

Your Darkness Punishes But Does Not Win Ravaging of Time- its sharp savage blades Often minor cuts, blood spilled with no thought. Hidden pains of lone, dark nights, midnight raids From which no saving reprieve can be bought. Clinging to that last old withering branch With endurance built in bravest of souls. Life holding out for its sad and last chance Soon to embrace night, black as unburnt coals. Death, thee hast come to do Time's last commands With thy blades its servant, wicked with glee. No power on earth, sends thee reprimands As no power can drain Time's endless sea! When innocent souls meet thy merciless blades Mere mortals ponder, life's foolish escapades! Robert J. Lindley, 2-06-2017 Syllables Per Line: 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 11 11 Total # Syllables: 142 Total # Words: 107 Note: Time and Death, twins that work to bring darkness, defeated only by the saving Light of a Doorway, when opened.

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Keith O.J. Hunt

Date: 2/6/2017 10:12:00 PM

Great sonnet Robert, reminds of Milton; the cold, hard truth about some facts of life, but one which can be overcome by God's great light. Myself as a poet I don't mind delving in the darkness sometimes; it is merely an expression of sincerity, which is truth in itself. The trick is finding the light in the dark, which I think you clearly found in this piece.

Robert Lindley
Date: 2/7/2017 10:20:00 AM

Thank you my friend. I hope to soon reach again the peacefulness and happier spirit into which to write happier poems, Nature poems, romantic poems and other deeper messages.