{"sf1_id":128050,"sf2_id":"V1Y6XyDe","title":"Look at it again","author":"High_Ace","words":409,"posted_at":"2010-02-25T20:55:00.000Z","tags":["Poem"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/128050-look-at-it-again","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/V1Y6XyDe","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/43/1e/431e67e5-c78c-4e68-95d9-c5b22042a1c3","description":"","content":"\u0026nbsp;\n\nSee you not the beauty of Death?\n\nHow the shadow must hide a light.\n\nYou know Life till the final breath,\n\nYet you speak of Death in the night.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nI came to you from far away,\n\nCame from calmer, carefree hills.\n\nLook at my face and see the play\n\nOf the light that from heaven spills.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nI challenge you, I challenge all,\n\nI challenge those there before me.\n\nI ask you join me in the fall.\n\nAs from the heart of hope I flee.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nI give my gift as there you lie.\n\nI begin my story anew.\n\nA gift for which many would die.\n\nAs now my dear must you.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nI give freedom, I give you peace,\n\nI hope you choose to use them well.\n\nI see your face. Without a crease.\n\nI'll next see you and it in hell.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nSo if ever you wonder: 'Why?'\n\nThe knife unused upon the sill.\n\nAsk of me and I'll tell no lie.\n\nI only ever meant you ill.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nWhat was it that it was that made\n\nme turn from that most subtle knife.\n\nI left the dream that could not fade.\n\nThe taking of your precious life.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nWhy do I wish to have it all,\n\nJust so I can throw it away.\n\nAt temptation I did fall.\n\nI am only a child at play.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nForgive me now for telling truth,\n\nAs rainbows fly from roof to roof,\n\nAnd horses lie, with golden hoof.\n\nA child's dream. That is your proof?\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nI love you yes? I love you not?\n\nMy dreams, my heart, they never stop.\n\nThe answer becomes clear at last.\n\nI hide my heart, I hide it fast.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nSo now you see why you were spared.\n\nI know now that love is fake.\n\nAs is all that man does make.\n\nMy thoughts were only for myself,\n\nI have no need for dreams of wealth.\n\nFor the future I am prepared.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nSing with me as we make our stand.\n\nForget the past just come and fall.\n\nTonight will you please hold my hand,\n\nIt never mattered, not at all.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n.\n\n.\n\n.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n_'I do not see beauty in Death._\n\n_How can the shadow hide a light?_\n\n_I feel your heart; I feel your breath,_\n\n_Yet I fear the coming night.'_\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nHope you like it. It's old but I thought it might excuse my absence.\n  \n  \n\n"}