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# A Door to Leave Open
- URL: https://www.yacubdavidsmith.com/a-door-to-leave-open/
- Published: 2026-09-26T05:31:07.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-26T07:06:25.000Z
- Author: yacub david smith
- Tags: Poetry, Just Like Cambridge

Death is, and death was,  
sometimes a young face  
with eyes like a dove,  
escort to a lone place,  
a hand in a glove,  
sometimes an ocean  
no warm touch or love —

A name to remember,  
a friendship to bear,  
a heart to rip open,  
then slowly repair,  
sometimes a garden,  
with no one to care —

A horn and a signal,  
the crashing of tides,  
sometimes a full moon,  
‘neath velvet red skies,  
a door to leave open,  
from dust to arise,  
a thought set in motion,  
a flame deep inside.