This Singular Night - Debate via prose or poetry prompt - carl - missouri

truly a life changing moment

Overwhelmed by the glorious sight- 

of myriad blazing stars filling the sky,

horizon to horizon

on the blackest of nights.

Immediately in the moment I understood 

that earlier dark night filled only with doubt

and many fearful questions- 

all unanswered until now.

“What about me, I had cried, 

where do I go?

All the others have destinations

but I alone am left in this place 

where I can no longer stay

and yet I have no other place to go.”

For many years

there had been no answer 

until this singular night. 

Filled with complete serenity I realized,

here is a time and place unknown to me-

one only you could see.

This is the place made by you,

and the way I had come

was needed too.

Reviews

[Beren]

I had to read this poem over and over again until its effect on me wore off. I thought my questions would decrease as I read it, but on the contrary, they increased. I have no choice but to take the words here very personally, you have explained it very well. And here I will overwhelmed in my own glorious sight...

Thank you for sharing this one. Perfect poem.

[carl]

thank you for the time to read and review much appreciated the kind expressions. please know. It is a very real and highly personal piece for me of an actual overwhelming event that brought great clarity both to my past and present all on the same moment - carl

[Beren]

I'm really sorry. Thank you for sharing this with me. Hope you are better.

[carl]

not sorry I am absolutely fine. - when I was completely abandoned and in deep sorrow there was at that same moment a provisional care waiting for me which I only came to experience at a much later date on that singular night. It was a God thing and It erased all doubt that I would ever be alone again. -carl

[Lorry]

Looking up at a glorious night sky and feeling a part of the majesty of life beyond our own feeble limits is truly a moment to cherish.
When no matter what goes on in our own shores, we can look up and instantly see that this whole life thing ain't that bad at all.

[carl]

thanks for the read and review - much agree "It's a wonderful life" all things considered. -carl
read morethanks for the read and review - much agree "It's a wonderful life" all things considered. -carl

[Samuel Dickens]

I am reminded of a night sky I once saw in the Arizona desert, filled with so many very bright stars that I felt awed and ridiculously miniscule.

[carl]

read and review appreciated - truly the night sky when in a place of little or no light pollution can certainly produce those feeling - carl