Shadow on the Sun

Of Remembrance

I am but a little light

It is easy to ignore me.

I rise to but a little height;

Giants have gone before me.

 

I wonder, can uplifted eyes

Pick me out in a star-strewn sky?

In a forest of trees, swaying in the breeze

On tiptoe I present my brightest leaves.

 

We are little stars that burn out too fast.

We are so small, and the night so vast;

Like beams from lost novas, reaching us today

Our lives will flash through time and space.

Sometimes the light only reaches our eyes

Long after the star has died.

 

Cowards are swallowed by time

And Giants are born in the mind:

We rise only as high as we believe we can.

Icarus’s curses won’t darken my eyes

My fears are the fuel that makes me to rise

So high, that I cast my shadow on the sun.

Author's Note

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