Illumination

Illuminate me.

Make me the light

that swallows the shadows

tracing lovers against

the backdrops of dirty

cement walls and dully

lit street lights just before

the kiss of dawn.

 

Make me the song that

sings the kind of lyrics

I could never find the words for.

The kind that sparks the brain

with memories pulled off the

dusty shelves of my blacked-out mind,

shedding light on pages of stories long forgotten,

dotting every ‘i’ with perfect circles.

 

Make me the kind of spark that lights

the fires in the coldest of places.

Antartica.

The frosty frame of my window

pane on a February morning.

A winter night in the most

desolate of deserts.

Make me the kind of light

that accompanies the silences

surrounded by the chattering of teeth.

 

Make me the bonfire that

crackles and pops purple flames.

People huddled around me

for the warmth I offer,

the kind whose wooden aroma

permeates past the beaches and blocks

into the buildings of pretentious corporations

whose cubicles stack like ice trays.

Let the smell of the burning remind them

that life exist outside of computer frames,

books of rules, penal codes, stacks of

addendums from meetings gone wrong.

Let the smell remind them that

there is life outside boxes.

Past the pages of alphabetically

stuffed dark coffins of file folders.

 

Let me be the kind of light

that doesn’t need a switch,

the fluorescent bulbs blinding the bleary

on a monotonous Monday morning.

 

No,

make me the light that hums with

the kind of ambiance of unforeseen

romances on lonely streets,

make me the spark that ignites

memories of dusty mementos,

a brief moment of self-discovery,

make me a flame to warm

the frozen and the desolate.

The kind that brings people

out of boxes and into circles.

 

 

Reviews

[MagicHearted Knight]

This is a very powerful and elegant piece. I am blown away by how deeply moving it is.

[Daniele]

splendid imagery and what a commentary on this lonely hurtling world

[S.J.Floreen]

A lovely poem of wanting to be the light in the darkness of current society.