Shedding a little light on the past for M'lady Helena

Sonnet in tetrameter

 

Shedding a little light on the past

 

A candle in a paper boat

Placed on the water carefully

Then lit before its set afloat

Recalls a racial memory.

Of funeral pyres in days of old

Of longships burning in the night.

 The records that our memories hold.

Transformed by the candle light

on paper boats we set adrift.

It’s just a little game to us

But memories can slowly lift

 the veil that’s separating us.

Two worlds existing side by side.

Long may these memories abide.

 

Tuesday, 08 December 2009

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