From darkness to darkness


From darkness to darkness
Seems bound in desperation.
Looking at the bookends,
What good can there be?
What hope can be found?

Darkness;
We know it by what is missing;
In the events that happen beyond it.
Between the ends
We find light.

Brilliant illumination;
Vim and vigor flow where there was nothing
Filling the chasm of indifference
Springing from unknown places
Burning from conversion.

From darkness to darkness
We find meaning
Deconstructing and building
In the now
In the what is.

No remembrance of what preceded it
Supposing what follows it
We have today
In a life
And in a minute.

From darkness to darkness
We live
We love
We howl
And we serve.

We look and we see,
Directed focus.
Choosing the gaze which suits us
Be it the ends
Or the light in between.

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