Eclipsed by your looming absence
you become strange, the light changed,
as if poured from a different vessel—
occasion for fears and fantasies.
And yet you are eclipsed
in every night of sleep,
and look, we have survived.
It is not your absence, or even your distance,
but what comes between that turns you strange,
that makes for unnerving incomprehension.
What we see and sense
is never the whole truth;
a radiance, more steady than our faith,
endures.
Why be afraid of the dark
when it shines so?
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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