FIREFLIES:RONALD G AUGUSTE

 

Fireflies punctuate night's dark paragraph
With flickering apostrophes of light,
Or glimmer like exclamations of hope
On an unending fly-leaf of despair.
Dancing before the eager scrutiny of my eyes,
They die, momentarily,
While a leaf is turned
Towards the shining epilogue of dawn;
Then come to life again-
Winking, fire-blinking neon asterisks
On night's black velvet page.
Above, in a cloud-hungry sky,
A myriad stars imitate
The scintillating diamond dots of fireflies,
In brilliant constancy!

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