Strange new light in faces seen before
one day, when all the world was shadow
a flash had flickered once, and was no more.
With the shards of love extinguished
when time has sealed the door
the ruin, and the wreck of pasts destroyed
when weeds have overgrown, and the petals
in the shrines of love unfold.
Cold new day in fire from the war
alone, with city smoke and rubble
a life had lingered long, and was no more.
From the seals that death relinquished
in time to settle the score
the cycle, and the scope of lives unbroken
with the meaning still unknown
leaving lessons from the tales of love untold:
strange new light of love’s first dream
sad light of love’s last effigy.