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Topic: Great (07/06/06)
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By Keith Wallis
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Summoned by early birdsong
and dawns new finery
the new day fleshes out into colour.
A fresh blanket of reality
smoothers the grey shades
delivering wakefulness
to sleeping blooms.
The great fire ball begins
its arching race across the sky
sending darknesses, in decreasing
stature, behind bright exposures.
This is mastery,
this monotheistic dictatorship,
subjects all before its glare.
Not content with veneration,
the great fire bleaches and burns
demanding sacrifice above worship.
Returning blistering thirst
blinding brightness
and fierce scorching for another day.
Crops are stillborn sterile memories
of a time when effort was rewarded.
Mouths no longer salivate,
breasts no longer nourish,
in this punishment of sunlight
an endless parching sentence.
But it is not weather that withers,
the entrancing promise
of early moment
that becomes this devouring demon
is no seasonal tide.
This is not a barren hillside
but grieving love
drawing you close to an empty tomb
where refreshing darkness
of a greater Light
delivers its children
from the blaze of sin and burn of decay.
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