Only the night

Kijk naar het plaatje, lees de tekst of laat die voorlezen, en laat je wegdrijven naar de horizon terwijl de avond valt…
Just watch the image, read the words or have them read out loud, and drift away to your mind’s horizon at nightfall…

Jane Dougherty Writes

Only the night lights the lamps of the stars,

Only the sea catches them when they fall,

Rocks them with driftwood and wave-broken spars.

Shining the same on both beauty and scars,

The night fills with splendour our bottles and jars,

Only the night lights the lamps of the stars.

The blustering wind blows the ripples and mars

The spangles of sea stars, a silvery scrawl,

Rocks them with driftwood and wave-broken spars.

Day casts our dreams where there are no lodestars

Though our hearts yearn to catch and polish them all.

Only the night lights the lamps of the stars,

And rocks them with driftwood and wave-broken spars.

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