Document 20 out of 40 by Brian Buckley.

SciFi and Fantasy Stories: In Memory of Light

Well, I'd have to say this is a relatively unexplored genre... science fiction poetry. Strange, yes, but I think it turned out all right.

Main Category: [Science Fiction]


	In Memory of Light I was not always cold and faint My rays not always dim The burning stars surround me now; I once was one of them. I still recall the tiny earth The dawns I painted red Above a land whose brilliant green Is rocky now, and dead. How distant are those days to me Which yet my memory holds: I once was bright, a blazing sun Arrayed in crimson golds I touched her face with flaming hand And felt the azure sky Her people saw me in the clouds A white unblinking eye. Can it be true? I pitied them? Their microscopic lives How quickly did they leap for death Their husbands and their wives How frantically they spent their days Upon their grassy sphere While I was strong, secure from time, Within my fortress here. But fleeting was their sojourn there Beside my astral seat In all too short a time they fled Before my rising heat. My fires grew immense in size Expanding in the chill But monstrous though I soon became Their race flew higher still. They sent their ships uncounted in The blackness of the deep They circled other suns while I Was lying here, asleep I wreaked my desolation on The world I called my kin And now a plain of ashes lay Where forestland had been. Away - away - how swiftly gone The vastness of the flame How soon, in place of stellar warmth The frigid blackness came I shriveled to a tiny shell The earth was bleak and cold Ten thousand newer homes replaced The human race's old. They spread throughout the galaxy Its majesty is theirs They need no longer fear my wrath Or fitful solar flares But oh, my children scattered far Across the endless night Do not forget your cradle here Beside the dying light!

Date	Name	Comment
25 Mar 2003	Quarkcat	Loading... Simply beautiful.
2 May 2003	Artemis	Loading... Wow. Just... wow. I like the last verse the best, but the whole is just amazing. I have read all of your work, and this is one of my favorites, next to 'The Silent Dark' and 'The Rock And The Tree'. I think all your work deserves Mod's Choice! Brian Buckley replies: "Thank you!"

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SciFi and Fantasy Stories: In Memory of Light

In Memory of Light