Days Dawn Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

Days dawn
But over your grave
Drear Sorrow always sits
Never abandoning:
For
Light at night
Up in the heavens
The glad stars
Looked silent and
In awe
Father
My father
For light by you
In the quiet cemetery
The tiny glow worms glistened
And the tread of
Bony phosphorus:
Left quiet to itself in those
Rare hours:
Yet with the other Spirits
Not ranging far
Far from destined site
Of resting
You talked and whispered
Only Poet Seers will view
Only Philosophers and deep-browed
Thought understanding feel.
And
When the glory of the day
New day
Erected itself from the pains of
Nursing
You were still there not
Fugitive round Earth:
For then you feared not nor
Had to fear.
For in your sweet sorrow
At all day’s routine hours
In succession striking
For you my father
Days dawned
But over your grave
Drear Sorrow always sat
Never abandoning.