Is it like the joyful breeze

Of a crashing wave

Crisp and salty

A breath

Expanding?

Is it like the sweetness

of an orange blossom

Unfolding to the moonlight?

Stretching its petals

In simple awareness

Becoming

Itself

Innocent

Once again

But for a second

The sound of light and dark

Contained

Obtained

Retained

But for a second

Explained

Gone before long

And I long to go there too

To the place where all exists

And nothing

The source

Of light

Of clarity

Of sound

In silence.

I had forgotten the radiance

I gave the sun

And how it rose

To warm and greet me.

Seeking sameness

Deep inside

It tried again

each day

So resolute

Each day it found

Another facet of my absence

Still, each day

The sun did not forget

That in my skin it found its meaning

And there was hope for rising yet

The more I spent my days in slumber

The more I fell away from me

The more I fed and grew my sadness

The more he shone

And steadily

As every soul does have an equal

As certain deep calls unto deep

Each day the sun would seek its likeness

Its light reflected back through me

And though my heart was lost and withered

Its pace and beat still spoke of life

And one day

light would heal and wake me

This love would

One day...

Get me through the night.