MOVES DARKNESS VAST

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But this condition is permanent;
This comedy of beauty and delight
Is like the snow, the dew, the leaf, the night,
Like snow it melts and quickly it is spent;
Like dew it shines and swiftly it is gone;
Like leaf it blows, then quietly it falls
Like night it has its stars but through its halls
Moves darkness vast enveloping the sun.

Vast is night’s darkness; but more vast, more deep,
More fearful is the darkness of unknowing;
The ignorance that makes the soul to sleep,
That stops the light of God in man from growing;
And fills the human heart with fear, instead,
And turns the earth into a house of dread.

-BENITO REYES
DIALOGUES WITH GOD
Sonnet psalms on the significance of being human
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