Tuesday, July 2, 2013

The World Is Quiet Here - A Poem

A tip of the hat to Lemony Snicket in the title there. Anyway, enjoy!


The World is Quiet Here


You know quite well what I can see from here,
Those glimm’ring, glitt’ring shadow-shapes afar;
The essence, wispy, of a time whose fear
Did not so dominate a broken star,
Who turning from the road could not do so;
And if he feared he would have come ajar
For to fear will prove the death of any foe.

To fear is just a subtle way to say
That man is not his former strength anymore
As he would have to have been in yesterdays
When he was broken, yet with foot in door
But knew his fate with not a single tear.
I see the shapes though fade they into mist
And I perceive, the world is quiet here.

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