Arrow in the sun

Folder: 
Wind of Change

In the dark of the night

     in dim flickering of candlelight

working carefully on the shaft

     of the arrow to take flight

 

smoothing it of all error

     to ease the travel of its flight

with a point to pierce the night

     from the darkness towards light

 

taking ribbon clean and pure

     forming words with care there

fixing to the shafts end

     words to fly into the light

 

before the rise of morning sun

     going forth in the night

taking bow and the shaft

     with the words to take flight

 

from the stars guidance take

     learning where to take my aim

where it first will begin

     the dawning of the new day

 

waiting there within the dark

     finding peace with all that is

becoming one with the task

     to perform at first light

 

taking stave and the string

     bending and fitting together them

fitting arrow to the string

     turning now towards the east

 

raising the bow with the sun

     pulling back and taking aim

becoming a one with the shot

     loose the shaft into the light

 

loose the words into new day

     going forth before me

flying up into the light

     traveling to where I will not be

 

shaft of arrow in the light

     flying into the day

that dawns before me

     light of day where I will not be

 

lowering bow and closing eyes

     wondering if it may be

somewhere within the new day

     that my words may be found

 

on shaft of wood

     with ribbon tied

words upon there wrote

     shot into the morning light

 

turning now I walk away

     going back into the night

where the dark will me take

     being not in the day

 

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Will anyone know or care what I lived and wrote in one hundred years

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