The light within
Too dim
To illumine
My confines

A window
Lets in
The light
Of the world

Slight
Narrow
Itself confined
To a shaft

Enough to illumine

Patterns

Which become bricks
In one wall of my

Confinement

That there is a wall
Unnerves me
But a prison of bricks
Is preferable to one of darkness

So I welcome the light
Invite its wisdom
Its insight

Ask it

Is there more here than the bricks?

A soft, warm chuckle precedes its reply

There is
You will not like much of it
Many things in the light
Seem terrifying

That is the way of life
But so too is there beauty
And love
In the light

And while terror 
Is found easily enough
In the darkness
Love and beauty need light

I nodded
Contemplated for a moment
Then turned to the light

I accept this challenge

And so began
The journey to discover
Me