​Night Light
​ 
I'll always love that lighthouse
with the green light.
For nearly two centuries
it has beamed
four seconds off, one second on.
I still count to make sure. One-and-
two-and-three-and-four-and-five-and.
It's visible thirteen miles out to sea
and when I'm thinking of home
​in the dark.

This family photograph of the West Pier lighthouse, Whitehaven, Cumbria,which was built in 1832, was taken in the fading light of  a December afternoon in 2011.

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