this is not the first message i have sent by any means but i am renouned for being tenatious.
what is your opinion on this poem?
i have submitted others but you seemed reluctant to advance an opinion. i would greatly appreciate one for this. thankyou.
Lost Sisters
One dark twilight I startled saw,
Flickering lights, filtering through the trees.
And delighted laughter trembling gently,
On the spicy embrace of the evening breeze.
Silhouetted by the firelight's glow,
I saw a woman dancing 'fore the light.
A dance so raw it seemed to me,
That she were charming the world into night.
She enraptured me so, I scarcely breathed,
As I crept toward her without care.
She continued to dance, and to entrance
Me with the light upon her golden hair.
The swaying of her silken dress,
Wound knots about my soul,
And the stare of her eyes through her pirouette
Made me come willingly toward her call.
I halted 'neath the lee of the trees;
As near as I could dare.
But the sound of her voice in the strain of her leaps,
Was more than I could bear.
I forsook my sense, and entered the light,
And upon her stealthy crept,
Until I saw with anguished eyes,
That in her dance she wept.
I started as she met my gaze,
With eyes that told her woe;
Of love and pain, faith and death,
Of things that I could never know.
She ceased her dance and came to me,
With my pity mirrored in her eyes.
We embraced as the fire lit our tears,
As the breeze caught in our sobs and cries.
We were sisters, it seemed, in our lament;
Forever doomed to, weeping, roam.
But neither she nor I need more resign,
To weep in dark alone.
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