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One Hundred and Fifty-Five Sonnets - 25. light
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Sonnet No. 49
The body of every person alive
Emits a tiny amount of light,
Which is destined to shine and to thrive
Totally below the level of sight.
Some say this light is like that of a star,
And as old as when the universe burst;
Others that it is the mind's avatar,
Showing connection clairvoyant first.
But a third way might prove the middle ground –
That the light from us made the cosmos part,
And gave meaning to all dead matter found,
For without Love, creation could not start.
The light I behold in you is just the same
As shone on us before the world had a name.
Sonnet No. 50
Time flows ever towards an evening-slide
Sweeping hopes and wants until they recede
Back to the stymied calm that they precede
To wash away all in its waning glide.
But like water, time has its morningtide
Swelling and lifting up every misdeed
To the point that truth might at least succeed
To roar fire by a dull ember's side.
But those coming and goings, my dearest,
Can't effect the steady pace we have built,
As we stroll holding hands on the clearest,
High path above the current and the silt,
For the way we've chosen is the holiest,
And will never float away on tides of guilt.
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