Sidewalk Lights

See the light on the sidewalk path
It shines to light the way.
If you look up and down the path 
the lights are all the same.
Long straight lines, they curve a might --
a hundred glowing bowls.
Keeping me safe as I walk at night
so I won't fall into the holes --
or get lost in the darkness,
lost in nights unknown.
Guiding when nights are dark and starless --
guiding me safely home.

Reviews

[barleygirl]

I admire a poet who thinks of a simple everyday detail & then spins it into a metaphoric message such as this one. We all have different "sidewalk lights" to guide us along our dark nights *smile*

[James]

Thank you for that wonderful comment and for seeing that this was about more than just lights on a dark night.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

really like this...the near rhyme works perfectly...

subconsciously, we know the path...there is a light in our heart we can follow...and the line is pretty straight.

j.

[James]

Thank you so much, Jacob. Yes, deep down we know the right path we just have to stay on it, sometimes that's not so easy to do.