Tag: light

Dimmed Lights

My heart goes out
To lights dimmed
Residing in
Dark places
Their power
Long relinquished

A pattern played
Their brightness seized
Turned back on them
A harsher light
By broken souls
Who feed on other’s weakness

In this walled-in world
With dimmest light
And darkest shadow

I close my eyes
And dream of sky
Pretend there’s green

Hear the song
Feel the breeze
And the sun’s blue rays

Clarity comes
When I breathe deeply
So the light comes in
When I quiet my mind
So the mist comes clear

From behind the clouds
The sun leaps out
Glares in my eyes
The world becomes
A contrast of
Simple black and white

The details lost
No greys or shadows
The colours lost
No textured nuance

And it occurs to me
The same thing happens
When I shine the light too hard
On the truths I’m seeking

Darkness falls
Upon the desert
Driving daylight’s
Golden rays
Beyond the Earth

But at the edge
Brief silhouette
As sunlight rages
And resists

No matter the depth
Of the blue I fall into
There is light above
And a vibrancy of life
I can climb to

I turn the brightness up
Raise myself out of the depths
The mire
The hardship
Out of the confusion
And disorientation
If only for a moment

Breathe

Like coming up for air
In the tumult
Of crashing surf
Before the wave
Takes me under

Meeting my shadow
Surprised me
Not for his darkness
Nor for his pain and scars

He is a shadow
That is his essence

It surprised me
That I admired him

For his perseverance
For his tenacity
For his will to exist
For his endurance

I do not hear the refrigerator
In the quiet of my living room
Until its compressor turns off

I do not notice the darkness
In the blink of an eye
Until I turn my attention to it

I cannot know the depth of my being
Until I still the mental chatter
Distracting me from its presence

I am learning
The difference between
Fire and Light

One burns
The other illuminates

One is zealotry
The other is passion

One is hubris
The other is clarity

One is seduction
The other is insight