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The Beacon

The light flickers at the window pane

A beacon for all to see

A lady peers out in the rain

Oh Lord, send him home to me.

 

The soldier looks up to the skies

Body crumpled to where he was thrown

Staring now with unseeing eyes

That will never again see home

 

The fisherman caught in a net of his weaving

Screaming his life at the sea

Fighting his death and still unbelieving

That this could be happening to me

 

The driver mangled in the remains

Of what was once was his pride

his life ran out with the blood of his veins

Alone, far from home when he died

 

A flickering light calling for shades of the past

Window glass steams with her breath

Though the night is so long it cannot outlast

The despair and denial of death.