January 2, 2017Poem

Are you happy

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Are you happy

For me

Does it make you sad

The pain

Once shared

Now witnessed

What would you have me do

I can see your smiling face

Reflected in every surface

Tell me the secret

You keep

Who is it for.

What is the meaning

Of silence

When there is a word

For every sound

But nothing

Is an unknown

Will it become familiar

When I am gone

Only tomorrow knows

And it is not

For the telling

Eventide holds a candle

For you

Which will burn

Until the devil

Steals the moon

They both argue

Beneath the horizon

Over the speed

Of its return

As I recall

The truth is nothing

Without some

Insight

Into its becoming

And I need you

To remind me

Of its mystery

Before the last moonbeam

Dissolves into dust

As that will be a time

To give an answer

To the meaning of

Redemption