by Tommy Hayfield

Created on: January 08, 2010   Last Updated: March 22, 2010

Shine a Light

I underneath the tree lay and the warm stars shine 

a twinkle, a thread of a dream of hope (but I, undreaming but not unwilling , fail to see)

Perhaps the world twinkles away this night for me?

(I pray the Lord my soul to keep!) 

I, so close to the stars, almost to heaven

lay in God's lap under the that starlit stage 

Shine on my future I might nightly pray

as I prepare to dream a chosen dream

though I lay not awake this Winter night 

The stars, such a happy play they saw

as I youthfully played and nightly chose my dreams

from many a happy childhood stage 

Now I lay so quiet underneath the bewildered tree. 

I was happily closer to the stars above,

up above over the tree 

But that night I fell and now the tree

broken a bit weeps from its pain as I lay thought-free

(still and undreaming l unplay) 

Talk to me stars and keep me at peace; shine a light 

to the rescuers :lead them to me

Rescue me! ( I pray the Lord my soul to keep)

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