{"sf1_id":1701076,"sf2_id":"A1pElGe3","title":"I Won't Fear The Sunlight","author":"Rob MacWolf","words":164,"posted_at":"2021-03-30T17:04:00.000Z","tags":["Gay","M/M","Poetry","Romance","lyric"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1701076-i-won-t-fear-the-sunlight","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/A1pElGe3","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/47/cd/47cd6ed7-13d2-439a-8463-ddf029d97cf5","description":"#13 of poetry\n\nI wrote a tune for this one, don't know if there's a way to upload that.","content":"The waves upon the silken sands  \nAre softer than his breath  \nWhere he lies safe below the palms  \nIn sleep as deep as death.  \nSoon I will rise from here, and go  \nDown to the opal shore.  \nAnd I won't fear the sunlight  \nAnymore.\n\nI know the taste of warm, clean wind  \nThat paints the beach sand white.  \nI've climbed the cliffs among cool clouds  \nIn jungles of moonlight.  \nNow all my nights have passed me by.  \nThere's nothing to wait for.  \nSo I won't fear the sunlight  \nAnymore.\n\nPerhaps he will remember me  \nAlone upon this isle.  \nPerhaps another castaway  \nWill teach him how to smile.  \nPerhaps he'll wonder where I went  \nBeyond where white gulls soar,  \nThen he won't fear the sunlight  \nAnymore.\n\nBut now the east is lightening.  \nEach whitecap is aglow.  \nWhat is it sets my heart alight?  \nI know. I think I know.  \nDay overwhelming rises up  \nAnd I've seen it before,  \nSo I don't fear the sunlight  \nAnymore.\n\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"poetry","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1700241-sunstroke.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1701639-autumn-is-a-pagan.json"}}