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Poem of the Month 10/14

                                           Lantern

I remember the approach in the night,

some five hours of highway.

Tony Bennett and Andy Williams sang along…

There was a Lake out there in the darkness;

We were to exercise our youth tomorrow.

In the night however, there was the glow of amber,

This amber was connected to the lanterns.

These lanterns connected us to the past;

they connected us to tomorrow,

to the swimming and the row boats on the Lake…

Still as I gazed from the back of the old “Country Squire” wagon I knew;

I just knew that the amber lanterns stood for something.

They were a testament to all the children of the past;

They welcomed the children of the future.

For the moment, a fleeting moment,

The amber said: tomorrow you will see the Lake,

you will enjoy your youth be it so brief…

                        ©    Joseph James

                                9/22/14