| This is probably my favorite poem of those that I have written. I composed it while attending the Governor's Honors Academy during the last summer before the end of high school. I never shared it with its intended, but it was performed in the play that my GHA theatre class created. The music that we set it to, Enya's "Watermark", went very well with the poem's sonnet structure. Later I performed it in my high school theatre class autodrama (one person play) "Words of Expression". Additionally, this poem was published in the Charleston newspaper's "Flipside" regional high school newspaper. |
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| Flickering embers, the mem'ries of love, |
| die in the shadows, consumed by the night. |
| They dwell on the time when they once burned so bright, |
| when they danced on the wind like a dove. |
| Darkness consumes me in absence of love. |
| My heart which once melted, once filled with light, |
| in darkness now lurks - a child of the night, |
| cut off from the light which floods from above. |
| Darkness recedes as the light from the one, |
| restarts the fire of a love almost lost, |
| gladdens the heart of a soul tempest tossed, |
| reminding that life is meant to be fun. |
| My heart beats again and life is now fun, |
| thanks to the meeting of that special one. |
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