The Lone Light

Here I stand guard

Waiting

Watching

Alone

I shine my light

So they can see

I guide them home

Casting my beam across

What lurks below

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There waits danger

Pitfalls

Sharp Rocks

Dark space

I shine my light

Hope they will heed

My grave warning

But over and over

They turn away

-

Still I watch o'er

Always

Constant

With care

I shine my light

Though they don't watch

They shut me out

They don't want my guidance

I'm just a relic

-

'Til storms rage in

Then they need

Then they seek

Then they plead

Turn to my light

To find their way

Then sun returns

And I am forgotten

Until next time

-

Yet here I am

Tired

Ragged

Broken

Still I shine bright

Always for them

For all they have

In this dark, dreary world

Is my love’s light

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