We don’t fall,
we learn and grow:
there is beauty
in mistakes we make
and light in sadness.
We build a wall
around our glow,
and sleep to break
the cruelty
of madness.
only for a while. That’s all
the sun stays low,
to come awake
like fate with love, rises early
and finds us.
BIOGRAPHY:
Strider Marcus Jones – is a poet, law graduate and former civil servant from Salford, England with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. A member of The Poetry Society, his five published books of poetry https://stridermarcusjonespoetry.wordpress.com/ reveal a maverick, moving between cities, playing his saxophone in smoky rooms. He is also the founder, editor and publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/
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