I turn the key.
Was it even locked?
Gently, I nudged it open.
Finding myself alone again
was not to my liking.
Maybe I should have seen it coming.
But, I forced myself to sidestep the issue.
The hurried ending of calls as I neared,
should have spoken to me,
but I paid no attention, or so I appeared.
Who could have believed all those feeble
excuses for the late suppers.
The times when “she didn’t feel like it” had
a ratio of ten to one. But I rationalized.
Well, she had been busy, only who knows at what.
But she had been busy.
And the check book, so, unusually
accurately balanced? That’s a new one.
Crap!!! She didn’t even leave the foyer light on.
I swear.
Setting the brief case down to
remove my coat, the light
suddenly came on.
“HAPPY BIRTHDAY”!!!!!!!
chorused twenty voices.
© 29 Nov 2010 For Matt's "Empty Apartment" contest
Darkness is a veil over the light
it covers the light and suffocates it
so that the light cant see until morning
when it see’s the world it sighs in despair
and slips back under the darkness
where the peace can unveil itself
then the darkness says
see why I like the dark
you cant see the hurt and despair in the world
and the light stayed there forever
By:Kylie Arello
Welcome to this darkened earth,
brightened, briefly, by your birth.
But soon enough covered again
by darkness born from souls of men.
We have left ourselves forsaken,
ghoulish rituals partaken.
New life eclipsed by endless death,
nightmares live in every breath.
Your vibrant eyes won't light for long,
degenerate from weak to strong.
Enter life and enter death,
exit light with every breath.
But soon you'll see the darkness of the soul,
never seeing any light, fall into the abyssal hole.
Drowning in the darkness of our strife,
cuts short your nonexistant life
Eternal Light is sewn above the man,
the man is sewn to Shadows there below;
two sides opposed but each must still demand
he fight their valiant battles, blow by blow.
And each the other cannot comprehend,
two strangers close but never have they met
and in between a firm, divided friend
that owes to both an equal, lifelong debt.
One for perspectives on a better choice
when all the easy answers seem awry
and one for being strong, a rebel voice
when clenched by rules demanding we comply.
These two make Me, a complex point between
the Light and Shadows of the wholly Scene.
Shattering Light of Life
burns bright in the turn of eYes
Look Love and Listen, Heaven's right here
Not somewhere waiting....
... obsolete and dissolving,
is 'Self' destruct word 'hating'...
There are know "obstacles" to Love
Like a flow of Water upon the Earth
Conquering all in it's Path.
...gentle as a stream and Just,
a trickle is a ripple in the Uni.Verse...
Be it need a wave or falls, spinning lights
or disco balls, rhymes of science or song
of birds... the Message of Love is a Laugh
In.Ward. Do you get my rift? ;)~
There's a batty hatter Singing and
The Light is ringing, to be heard.
"Love", is the IN.Word.
WE give 'it'....
IN. an OUT. wordly way... to the World.
:)
NEW.INK...
Dedicated to a "FreeMan" who always knew
that Love is a CAN.DO.... Word.UP! too ;)
If it were not for darkness
There could be no light
And without light
There can be no darkness
They are a pair
Conjoined twins
One cannot exist
Without the other
© John W Fenn 19-10-2009
“You only have one chance in life to make your first impression.
Don’t’ wait for the red light to turn green,
Wait for the green light to turn red
As if you’re rushing,
You might end up ruining that one chance!”
(My New Poetry Book (The Language Of Love)
is available Online and in bookstores
It’s A collection Of Poems (mostly about Love)
More Info? www.xlibris.com/TheLanguageOfLove)
In gust of sorrow, does darkness dwell
Eyes open or closed, it hardly quell
Engulfs into heart shell, never to be flare
Here darkness stays virgin, forever to reign
Such purity of darkness, pious than light
Embrace every form, without any bias
Shuns worldly treasure, in emptiness seek pleasure
No light manipulate, such darkness immaculate
And in such darkness, we still feel worried
Nothing but of, our own devious belief
That in light we hardly gaze, in darkness chase
Besiege light illuminated, fails prize integrity
Of human conscience, blight by fragility
Eternity has witness, blindfold justice conquest
Alas! After viciousness, committed in light.
Triumph of darkness, linger in reverberating silence
...rAHUL
God is dead.
Fell from Heaven and burned his head.
I heard a yell.
Way down in Hell.
I looked around.
Free men standing,
Godless, fearless, mortal,
Full of selfishness and
Self-interest, self-respect,
Loving life,
Feeling it swell their minds and bodies,
Exulting in the fact
Of independent individuality.
Yes.
At last, man is free.
Look at me.
I am the light,
Not the Christian night,
Nor the Jewish night,
Nor the Moslem night.
I am the light of Reason.
I am the light of Reality.
I am the light, the only light,
Of man's soul.
I am your self.
Spurn it, damn it, deny it,
Live totally selflessly,
I am still your self.
Flick it on,
Be the dawn.
Only in the light of reasons we sprout
Do we seek our destinies by the shore.
Can there be a shadow of a doubt?
To this type of thinking we are devout
But only to this one kind and no more:
Only in the light of reasons we sprout.
And now we know what it’s all about.
The passion and war that we abhor.
Can there be a shadow of a doubt?
This method of logic we can’t do without.
But it’s been around for ages in lore
Only in the light of reasons we sprout.
This is the life we complain about.
Strangely the one we explore yet ignore.
Can there be a shadow of a doubt?
Before we can grasp it, we want out
Due to the complexities of logic. For
Only in the light of reasons we sprout
Can there be a shadow of a doubt.
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