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Waking to birdsong and morning's promise, the whispering breeze and murmuring light dispels the fog of the evening's gloom, the shaking terrors of the dreaming night. Ghosts visit in the trembling darkness and remain until they are chased away by a soft explosion of solar hope, by the advent of an untouched day. To wake is to make a fresh pact with life, to attempt to find a new way to see, to take up the journey once again, to struggle for another day to be. Like the helpless moth to the fire drawn, I cannot say no to the voice of dawn. - mce
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Nov 10, 2015
Nov 10, 2015 at 10:27 AM UTC
Sonnet: Upon Waking
Waking to birdsong and morning's promise, the whispering breeze and murmuring light dispels the fog of the evening's gloom, the shaking terrors of the dreaming night. Ghosts visit in the trembling darkness and remain until they are chased away by a soft explosion of solar hope, by the advent of an untouched day. To wake is to make a fresh pact with life, to attempt to find a new way to see, to take up the journey once again, to struggle for another day to be. Like the helpless moth to the fire drawn, I cannot say no to the voice of dawn. - mce
mike-essig
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Nov 10, 2015
Nov 10, 2015 at 10:27 AM UTC
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