a touch of imortality

[steffan]

I gaze at the moonless sky and think of light eternal
Distant points of shining embers fuel my musing
The closest of them still impossibly far
there light I now see was born when I was a child

Some no longer are, there time spent before the birth of man
What great and wise civilizations have arisen since there glow began it s journey to me
Is the flame of there cities intermingled with the glow of those distant suns
Only reaching me now, long after they have returned to dust


And what of our light? Were does it go?
When I turn off the light in the middle of the night and it fades outside my window
Do the campfires of my youth still burn across that night sky?
Will someday some far off wonderer gaze at the star that once warmed my face
And find it just that much brighter

P.S.
I have been trying to write this for years, I'm still not at all happy with it but i think i am getting closer

[sylvanlightning]

Wow, well done. I found your sharing very beautiful.

[steffan]

you think so? I thought it kinda bit, but the fact that light never stops unless it gets sucked up in a blackhole fasinates me. very time we make a light we add it the universe yaknow?

[sylvanlightning]

Ah, and when light enters a black hole does it come out the other side
to brighen another Universe :) We are love and light when we relax
into our essence and allow ourself to be present in harmony with
All that is.

[gdhmomchild]

I really like this rendition.

[steffan]

thanks, if i keep it up maybe someday it will be in meter and ryme :)

[mariecstasy]

steffan, this is most excellent....i esp like the last stanza....

and sylvan...i dig your thoughts too of the light gettin sucked up and lightin on another universe....why not?

[steffan]

actualy Marie that is only stanza to have survived from conception, the first one was too abscure though and the content was so important to me a keep rewriting it..
thanks sweety

[celeritea]

eternal musing, impossibly far
i was a child
the birth of man
journey to me
those distant suns
returned to dust

light? go?
my window
night sky
my face
much brighter
a long time
i think i am getting closer

:)