Chiaroscuro: abandoned dark
Falling back before the advancing light.
If the room I live in were not so vast
The light I hold would cancel the black
To banish darkness, first you must plumb
The darkness’ depth – and nothing known more deep.
I know true darkness is much more
Than interrupted light – shadow clung
To the thing’s edge – or the domain of sleep.
I have known times when the mind cracks before
The force of its own thoughts. With those
Moments in mind he has taken a lamp
To cast a light on the future’s flickering floor;
Behind his back, the gates of darkness close.
Behind his back, the gates of darkness close;
The leap he takes is into light’s abyss,
Knowing that at the brink one never knows
Whether it’s darkness that encloses
Light, or the light darkness.
He takes a chance on what may lie in store
For him in landscapes where the objects glow:
In my world where the darkness breeds around me,
Light may open up a world beyond me.
Opening outward, opening more and more.