Array ( [sid] => 148876 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Darkened Night [time] => 2009-04-02 17:02:50 [hometext] => Thank you, Roxie, for the two words that allowed me to write of my grief...This is the sequal to one of my favorite pieces, The Fall, written in 2005. That one was fiction. This one is very painfully real. [bodytext] => I raised my hand in moonlight bright
To ask the Queen to hear my plight
And She who reigns with grace so grand
Came down to take this mortal's hand

Mother, please, my heart is aching
I can't keep my friend from fading
I beg of you to help him see
That love should make him whole and free

He's let himself become her whim
The light within him now is dim
And all the gifts that he once gave
She's beaten down with love deprave

Behind that youthful, winsome smile
There lies a heart that beats with guile
A bitter, candy-coated pill
That once is swallowed, it will kill


Mother, please, my heart is breaking
My sister's husband has been taken
His sudden death brings shock and grief
A family lost without relief

Mark left behind a desperate wife
three children and his grand son's life
His daughter now will walk alone
When she marries and leaves his home

I've tried to help, to ease her pain
But tears still pour, a bitter rain
I feel inept in all I do
And so I've come to beg of you

Oh, pull me from this tide of fear
So I can say what they must hear
Fill me with wisdom and with power
that I might help in this dark hour

And She who's reigned since time did start
Did place her hand upon my heart
The ache it grew, then worsened still
Before it lessened through her will

Dear child of mine, do not despair
It's through your naked heart you care
For without trying you have felt
The piercing pain your friends were dealt

One laid to rest, while loved ones grieve
The other lost to selfish greed
Their journeys were not yours to take
You know this truth beneath the ache

But by my word, I cede to you
Strength and valor to see this through
To be their rock while they're adrift
I grant you peace, that is my gift

So with this last she did ascend
Up to the stars to reign again
And Mother Moon, with gracious light
Shone once again in darkened night







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Darkened Night
Date: Thursday, 2nd April 2009 @ 05:02:50 PM AEST
Topic: Sad Poetry

Contributed By: Loende
I raised my hand in moonlight bright
To ask the Queen to hear my plight
And She who reigns with grace so grand
Came down to take this mortal's hand

Mother, please, my heart is aching
I can't keep my friend from fading
I beg of you to help him see
That love should make him whole and free

He's let himself become her whim
The light within him now is dim
And all the gifts that he once gave
She's beaten down with love deprave

Behind that youthful, winsome smile
There lies a heart that beats with guile
A bitter, candy-coated pill
That once is swallowed, it will kill


Mother, please, my heart is breaking
My sister's husband has been taken
His sudden death brings shock and grief
A family lost without relief

Mark left behind a desperate wife
three children and his grand son's life
His daughter now will walk alone
When she marries and leaves his home

I've tried to help, to ease her pain
But tears still pour, a bitter rain
I feel inept in all I do
And so I've come to beg of you

Oh, pull me from this tide of fear
So I can say what they must hear
Fill me with wisdom and with power
that I might help in this dark hour

And She who's reigned since time did start
Did place her hand upon my heart
The ache it grew, then worsened still
Before it lessened through her will

Dear child of mine, do not despair
It's through your naked heart you care
For without trying you have felt
The piercing pain your friends were dealt

One laid to rest, while loved ones grieve
The other lost to selfish greed
Their journeys were not yours to take
You know this truth beneath the ache

But by my word, I cede to you
Strength and valor to see this through
To be their rock while they're adrift
I grant you peace, that is my gift

So with this last she did ascend
Up to the stars to reign again
And Mother Moon, with gracious light
Shone once again in darkened night









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