And that this place may thoroughly be thought
\nTrue paradise, I have the serpent bought. <\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t John Donne<\/p>\n
I carry darkness with me to the brightest day, when,
\nfalling from my careful grasp,
\nit tumbles – careful and complete –
\ninto the moments of the earliest hour.
\nThis small dark fragment is not something that I know I hold;
\nit curls between my fingers \u2013 this bead of almost amber –
\nbearing a tiny grain of sorrow within its warmed shell. <\/p>\n
I know that, as I rest, it will seek again my sleep-numbed fingers
\nand nestle there. They will close upon it easy as upon a thought
\nso that I \u2013 unknowing \u2013 stretching into the day to greet the morning,
\nI will hold it once again
\nand I will let it fall. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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