april songs (Theme 2):  elements of life 9

april song 19—darkness
 
heedless, speedless, sourceless darkness
—to some souls a dreadful starkness—
where’s your hiding place at daylight,
with earth’s doors and windows airtight?
 
are you truly liberated
from the things man has created,
bearing naught of shape or substance
in th’ arena of the sun dance?
 
are your features gaunt or cheerful
when our children huddle, fearful
of the biting, stifling clutches
of your finger-crawling touches?
 
are you stronger than the sunlight,
even when it pales at twilight;
or are you afraid to handle  
e’en the flicker of a candle?
 
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