Midnight Musings 🕛
poetry·@yahialababidi·
0.000 HBDMidnight Musings 🕛
 *** Hope is a lighthouse (or, at least, a lamppost) someone must keep vigil to illumine this possibility In the dark, a poet will climb narrow, unsteady stairs to gaze past crashing waves and sing to us new horizons ***  *** Others, less far-sighted, might be deceived by the encroaching night mistake the black for lasting, but not those entrusted with trimming wicks Their tasks are more pressing— winding clockworks, replenishing oil- there is no time for despair when tending to the Light. ©Yahia Lababidi, author of [Where Epics Fail](https://www.amazon.com/Yahia-Lababidi/e/B0042SRQWG?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_6&qid=1566682271&sr=8-6) ***   [Image 1](https://www.alamy.com/1870-raging-storms-assault-the-eddystone-lighthouse-9-statute-miles-image152728834.html?pv=1&stamp=2&imageid=E02F0959-9C88-4F99-9481-79B1FED5D436&p=196516&n=0&orientation=0&pn=1&searchtype=0&IsFromSearch=1&srch=foo%3dbar%26st%3d0%26pn%3d1%26ps%3d100%26sortby%3d2%26resultview%3dsortbyPopular%26npgs%3d0%26qt%3dlighthouse%2520storm%2520waves%2520night%26qt_raw%3dlighthouse%2520storm%2520waves%2520night%26lic%3d3%26mr%3d0%26pr%3d0%26ot%3d0%26creative%3d%26ag%3d0%26hc%3d0%26pc%3d%26blackwhite%3d%26cutout%3d%26tbar%3d1%26et%3d0x000000000000000000000%26vp%3d0%26loc%3d0%26imgt%3d0%26dtfr%3d%26dtto%3d%26size%3d0xFF%26archive%3d1%26groupid%3d%26pseudoid%3d%26a%3d%26cdid%3d%26cdsrt%3d%26name%3d%26qn%3d%26apalib%3d%26apalic%3d%26lightbox%3d%26gname%3d%26gtype%3d%26xstx%3d0%26simid%3d%26saveQry%3d%26editorial%3d1%26nu%3d%26t%3d%26edoptin%3d%26customgeoip%3d%26cap%3d1%26cbstore%3d1%26vd%3d0%26lb%3d%26fi%3d2%26edrf%3d%26ispremium%3d1%26flip%3d0%26pl%3d) [Image 2](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_keeper#/media/File%3ALighthouse_keeper.jpg) Draft of the poem as it was being written:  *** [Shared on Twitter](https://twitter.com/yahialababidi/status/1204398065614049280) for #Posh @ocdb
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