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By jwb71913 Date: 2003 Feb 06 Comment on this Work [[2003.02.06.08.55.15371]] |
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I watched as you put your boots on, straining with them, with no clue that you'd ride out of my life soon, Sunlight reflected from your hair, like gold in a prospector's pan, you sat the horse with an easy grace, you smote horseflies with the fierceness of a warrior. Your smile broke through the shadows like a searchlight, and lit the path for me. The shadows grew sharper as the heat of the day came, and I saw the forest with new eyes as I followed you along the trail. What love was this that bled into the shadows, that revealed secrets best left untold? Was this the end of a lifelong search to find a path through the darkness, or just an illusion, born of halted electronic conversations and brief assignations? I felt in this moment as if the answer was there, just inches from my grasp, yet as I reached I saw it return behind the wall. What was the question? |