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Illuminate

In essence, we dwell

in darkness,

mostly unbeknownst to us

mostly accepted as the status quo

yet

we await illumination

a light, a hint, a whipser

never fully realising

that we carry the light

inside

between the thieves

beneath the surface

within

always and without fail

So, then…

why the darkness?

We accept the lie

the great lie

the only lie that matters.

As the poet said

Finnegans wake!

 

Will you?

Yes…

Flight, soaring through rushing strato vales and nimbus peaks

Elation beyond all comprehension

Leaves you

Breathless

Wanting more – the rush gone too soon

heart beating catching up to readjusted reality

How to live now in anonymous monotony?

How to exist in grey silence?

Once tasted technicolor life is the only fruit

More

Difficult to breathe

Hard to think

Form coherent thoughts

Fingers slowly moving over keys

familiar and alien

poised over letters and symbols and spaces

seeking the ones needed to express

most succinctly

The need

the feelings

slipping into…

lack of clarity?

over the ‘W’, now the ‘O’

still meaning eludes

too many thoughts, emotions

Sadness, guilt, regret, pity, shame (a little),

how to right a lifetime of actions?

how to give and receive peace?

Lost thoughts, orphaned, drift across my mind

dissolving as morning dew at dawn.

Dawn, there will always be another dawn.

I think.