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An Ember's Light Amid the Frost

Forget those words, cold, distant calls
Penned to lead you o’er the falls
Toward blank white emptiness below

Hush now, your gurgled snarl
vile drool of fettered rage
Your words have not yet come of age

Yet they burn in flameless fire
Purging all but one desire
One word, that word, that perfect tone

Leave it there, a diamond lost,
Upon the edgeless yellow page
An ember’s light amid the frost

Copyright © John Lawless

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