THE COURSE OF A LIFETIME

There are more hours of darkness
than light

If you are awake for them

But in the hour of darkness,

Light is just a switch

From shadow

If you want to flip

Where there is light

There is the presence of darkness

The brighter the sun

The deeper the shadow

where there is darkness

There is the presence of light



If you know to look

The blacker the night,

The brighter the stars…

O the epiphanies of those dark hours!

O the presence of light!



At a performance of the shadow play

You do not watch the puppet

But the shadow of the puppet

That is considered reality

The life you have and hold

with him


Is a shadow play, a performance

The great adventure

The great drama

The great silhouette of reality

I know the story

But continue to watch

From the wings…

I am a poor puppet

Examining my own shadow

In the play of life



I see each dark movement magnified

Each dark monologue amplified

But at the edge

Of my open eye

Even on the blackest night

There is the sometimes faint

Sometimes fierce

Radiance of heroic stars.