Bright Darkness



The shadow of a friend-
The light, that somehow tends..
A play on my fragmented fears-
A trick with all those magic mirrors.

It’s a cloak and dagger game.
It’s some thing that keeps us entertained.
Now a Life, I love to live…
How it ends, I just can’t wait.

Ourselves, we are a ship to steer….
Love me now and keep me near.
All these scenes will shift and bend,
Together we’ll transform-transcend.

About this poem

Written for my son. I believed he would understand. Poems express what you may not be able to talk about.

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Written on September 29, 1999

Submitted by Toomerlin on August 25, 2023

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Scheme AXXX XXXX BBAA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 412
Words 84
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

Linda Williams

I wrote this because I was frustrated about trying to be myself. And running into the problems that other people give you when you’re a little different. more…

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