Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, REMEMBERING THE DARK, by ROSALIE GOODYEAR



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REMEMBERING THE DARK, by                    
First Line: I'd like to be the lightning
Last Line: In the soft black night.
Subject(s): Night; Bedtime


I'd like to be the lightning,
A golden shaft from God
That strikes into lilies
And the soft brown sod.

I'd like to be the silver
That zigzags up and down
Across the blue heavens
And through the great town.

Yes, I'd like to be electric,
A quick come and go,
For just being human
Seems so very slow.

Oh to mix in a motor
And drive a great machine;
Yes, to be a force eternal
That never can be seen.

Yet here I stand so puny
Among the race of men,
While there a great dynamo
Chants 'lectricity again.

But when I think of loving
I can't admire sparks;
My mind runs in rhythms,
Remembering the dark;

And when my heart caresses
I like to linger so,
My lips seem too human,
Love won't let me go.

So when it comes to loving
I'm not a shaft of light;
I'd rather be a woman
In the soft black night.





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