By bp
Date: 2003 Jun 21
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passing thought

by fireside in this dark room
the hour late and silent
i watch the flames as they wane low
their amber colors bear soft relent.

having spent their moments past
smouldering in surrender,
when time before they danced with life
and colors they did render.

as did those flames i lived a life
a life of color and game.
i fed and danced on the fuel of others
in a life of squandered aim.

and also as those flames do now
i smoulder weak and lifeless;
and wonder, was my life in vain
or was there truly happiness......