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Lighthouse

from Crying Child (2011) by Thomas Kivi

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Treading from the lighthouse down towards the shipless shore

Witness to one silent night, though a quiet million fore

To wonder at the tide that rises, falls, but never sleeps

Ever the rain-kissed surface but untouched: the darkened deep.



Seasons condemn as makeshift all his walls of wooded frame

The town feigns permanent with her so nurtured shape and name

And even he then felt like leaves of some late autumn breeze

Once the green of summer trees--loosen, fall for winter's freeze.



Homeward bound beneath the sun--now the gauntlet of the stars

So tiny on their blanket black but as giant as they are far

Nature's dirge his jaunt disturbed like an uninvited stranger

So futile is his door's defense to this sensed predestined danger.



Up the stairs to chambers there to rest with no repose

In lamplight the words escape his lips, "alone, we with our woes."

But his wife awoke and spoke, "thy lighthouse--ships lost woefully,

I am the lighthouse and you: the ship. This life, it is our sea."

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from Crying Child (2011), released February 8, 2011

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Thomas Kivi Madison, Wisconsin

Singer-songwriter from the Upper Midwest whose reflective lyrics drift down a musical river of Americana--folk, blues, jazz, bluegrass, country, and rock'n'roll music.

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