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Jessica Harrison 1
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The world would wait for a sun
it knows will never rise.
Hope must be infallible,
or we are empty-handed.

Light is something from a daydream
that has been left behind,
and then rinsed away
with the chalk on the driveway.

Our voices are not our own.
They dance and fly away,
billions of fragments and colors.
They become us.

The sun is not as far away
as the earth fears.
It is closer to us
than we are to ourselves.
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Post by John Owen »

Nice poem,,, I love the last stansa
"the sun is not far away from us
As the sun fears
It is closer to us
Than we are to ourselves"
Harmony in chaos. It's all a matter of perspective.
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