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TITLE: A dark place cries for light | Previous Challenge Entry
By Keith Wallis
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Covered in hurt and pain
I turn my face from your wretched torment.
The world is a dark place for a while.
I find myself paging through the chapters of you life.
Watching you grow,
smiling when your face glittered
at the tickling and chuckling of childhood.
I know it was hard,
refugee from tyranny,
struggling on foreign soil.
You had your moments,
going off alone in questioning quest,
stirring worry and concern
with the ladle of adolescence.
You had a special nature,
a tenderness of caring unusual in a lad.
Your mother gave you her sacrifice of love
through those growing years.
Later, others will honour her motherhood,
when you have gone from the span of her nurture.
In ripping, scarring, care
she stands before you wracked with grief.
You could have been anything you wanted;
it was within your gift.
The sly temptations of everyman
fell silent before you.
Friends and foes ebbed and flowed
in adulation and disgust, love and fear.
You drew out every tide of the emotional palette.
Covered in your hurt and pain
I turn my face from this wretched torment.
The world is a dark place for a while.
But it had to be, my son.
beloved,
holy child.
This dark place cried out for your light.
From the movement of spirit upon waters,
through starry overture
to curtain torn triumph,
it had to be.
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