Spotlight
(c) Arike van de Water 2007-2009
Life Cycle
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The spring Sun greeted me
- A gentle good morning
- My eyes were seared by love
- Until I swatted it
- Clouds now darkened eyebrows
- Cast cold a shadow where
- Before his smile had stirred
- The love blood in my veins
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The summertime brought rain
- And tears of joy, of hate
- Pleasure fulfilled and drained
- Distraction, to forget
- That storms had raged between
- A great dark cloud and me
- The heat had brought lightning
- The Sun obscured from sight
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Then autumn drops went splat
- Defeated on the ground
- Soft sighs made sobs, I sagged
- Small shoulders, rounded back
- Time passed, life dragged on while
- With naked heart I asked
- "Heavens, please forgive me."
- The leaves turned brown, turned grey
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To white the world had turned
- When winter came to me
- A sheet of virgin snow
- To shelter brittle earth
- A ray then warmed my face
- The Sun had sunk, come down
- To reach me here, I sat
- Waiting, not abandoned