Reflection

By C.D.Courter

From "Internet Poems"

                Reflection



I saw Sirius on a moonless night
Like a flame beneath Orion's feet;
Across the cold and dark of space
Like a jewel unto my eye.  And I

Wondered if you, thus traveling far
Might look up from your bookish work
And through the pane just might espy
That self-same jewel, and in it's light

Might ask yourself if that remembered man
Left behind in a time of change
Should ever note in the darkened past
Such luster in the rough?  Would it

Be enough to keep the coal
Of dream aglow, reddish-hot with fire -
Or is it, like this very dream,
Contrived, and thus so soon expired?



                              C. D. Courter




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