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Date Posted: 13:25:46 03/19/04 Fri
Author: Raphaela
Author Host/IP: dsl-80-46-138-67.access.uk.tiscali.com / 80.46.138.67
Subject: Re: Abide With Me
In reply to: ashley owen smith 's message, "Abide With Me" on 03:29:14 03/16/04 Tue

Great imagery - works really well here, making the poem one to be remembered and re-read.

R ;)

>(I.)
>I must ask you
>to not ask me
>to meet your eyes;
>they will clash,
>like red and orange,
>like moon and sun, rising,
>meeting, breaking, a celestial war
>of wills.
>
>Because I have an imbalance here
>which tells me I'm lesser than you,
>a child of a lesser god, or some such,
>some suspension of being, being so much
>less.
>
>(II.)
>I do not like the night,
>its air is too thin,
>unbreathable as it were,
>cloying with moonglow and an absence of light,
>an absence of every secret thing.
>
>I do not like the day,
>its air is too thin,
>unbreathable as it were,
>glowing with sunlight, hideous,
>revealing, and ugly.
>Give me dusk,
>or the blue-grayness of dawn,
>push me through night's womb
>or bathe me in day's blood
>before it is swallowed by
>the foetus of night.
>
>
>
>Aos.

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