Arley Cox

Singer . Songwriter . Mentor .

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Lighthouse (poem)

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Lighthouse


A beacon of hope

When waters are rough

A call to danger ahead


A light so bright 

When things get dark 

Shows us where to tread 


A remembrance

Of times gone by

Sparks lit in the heart


Glowing and showing

The way back home

Going back to start


A blinding shock

Shielded eyes

Way too strong for some


Retracting back 

Into the dark

Hark the sounding hum


Of the point

That calls you home

Silent sometimes so


In the dim and dark

You see

Directs you where to go


Clears that 

Black and haunted space

Shines light warm and true


Like a hearth

Burning bright

Calling into view 


A place to cease 

And rest your head 

When waters surge to swell


A home, a lantern 

Buried peace

Halts the hounds of hell 


That snarl and nip

Around your feet

Begging you to plunge


Back to the deep 

And dark recess

A protest not for some


Come out upon

Your trace rock point

And show those in the dark


There is hope 

Straight up ahead

An ever fixed mark


Where the waters

Calm and quell

Ships find veiled cover


Protection lighting 

The shore away

Cast’s glow where shadows hover


Lost hearts find

The way back home

By solemn blazing hues 


Soulful calling

From the rocks

Jettied into view


You are safe 

And sound right now

Enveloped in the light


Still your breath 

Be true and clear

Rest 

With 

Me

For 

The 

Night

I wrote this one because I was thinking of how there are so much history and story attached to them.

They stand 

Both in dark and in light


“Begging you to plunge

Back to the deep 

And dark recess

A protest not for some”


Meaning it’s easy for some of us to slip into the darkness of whatever we might be feeling. 

We go without a fight

No protest


Lighthouses

Are also beacons

In where

I liken them to people 

You know those people who shine so bright and true in your life.

They emulate safety, truth, honesty

And goodness 

They are like a warm voice

Ever calling out to you

And when they shine their light 

Your soul can be at ease

Because you have 

Found your way 

Home


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