Friday, August 6, 2010

For my friends by William Stafford

For my friends:

Once in a cave a little bar of light
Fell into my hand. The walls leaned over me.
I carried it outside to let the stars look:
They peered in my hand. Stars are like that.

 Do not be afraid — I no longer carry it.
 But in a friend's face now, splinters of that light
 Fall and won't go out, no matter how faint
The buried star shines back there in the cave.

 It is in the earth wherever I walk.
 It is in the earth wherever I walk.

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