Glistening in the Dark Glistening in the Dark It's impossible to feel nothing in the dark while everything floats upward and all your fury and hunger oil their way to the surface. Shadows gawk and hang from contorted elms, but you have no patience for their oozing mysteries. One prayer and your heart opens like a scroll of cryptic wisdom, and the old sages roll out to remind you: All is well because love, and all its names for God, never left, can never leave, although the game looks quite convincing from the trenches in the cloaked world, and yes, it's rigged, but look what you've won: Could you see the celestial dramas, could you truly know the light, without the bottomless nights? A barn owl makes a sound from another world. The moon has fallen and is everywhere in new and old forms: diced and gleaming on the ink-blot pond; wrapping trees in its filmy peace; luring you into the softest sandstorm. Yes, it's like that. Light is no longer just an idea in the dark, but, like the moon in tatters at your feet, your visible truth, your sacred and endless Self. Patricia Joan Jones © patriciajj1 - all rights reserved. |
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