I have seen the setting of the sun…

I have seen the setting of the sun.

I have known the eclipse of the stars.

I have awoken in the mists of the morning,

and crowned the day with tears and flowers.

Darkness reached its hand across my heart,

grasping pin-pricked light through its fingertips

that parted the fog of the morning,

the start of the day with heaven on its lips.

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