Glisten, Glitter, Glimmer
We awoke today and winter was gone!
Ice exiled to Boreas’ house by a solstice Sun.
Once gray cityscapes glistened in the low beamed light.
And under cerulean expanse we walked.
Comfortable closeness,
Familiar friendship,
Optimistic gaze into a shrinking future but with joy in
togetherness.
Comfortable
I awoke in the night and sought the sun.
Darkness enclosed me in suffocating grip.
I cried for light – my voice inaudible – swallowed by the
black hole that was my new world.
I walked alone but was not alone.
All faces near me reflecting – what? Shock, grief,
sympathy?
I couldn’t see; couldn’t speak,
I was able only to do as I was advised.
Compliant.
I awoke in light glaring and hot.
An insistent sterile sun demanded I sample his products.
Brilliant unabated light pounded my retinas; searing heat
my head.
I walked on feldspar sand returning illumination to the
source.
Not depleting but enhancing.
I walked without shadows.
On my knees the generous heat gave me a stick in swap for
my tongue.
I worshiped with unutterable groans and then I listened.
“You should have…”
“I wish I could have…”
“If only you had done…”
“I am sorry.”
An angry interrogator the light delivered body blows
unending;
Naked, exposed.
Accused.
I awoke in a darkened forest.
I hummed a long dormant tune from my comfortable times.
My gaze pursued the contours of an old monarch and discerned
a faint eastern glimmer.
Dawn.
Strange this mixture of thoughts –
Unanswered “why” and settled promise
Lonely but loved.
Pain and purpose.
I moved toward the Dawn.
Quietly;
Hopeful.
