Occasional Poems

Light and Dark

 
Light and Dark

I think of the light setting out from very far away
The distance travelled through cold space
Free of all thought 
Then alighting here at this moment 

I think of the night unfolding all around us
I watch the warmth of your breath cooling in the air
Appearing and disappearing 
Then merging into the atmosphere

Slowly I stop thinking altogether 
The stars become more resolute
I hear my heart beat then I hear yours
Everything becomes darkness or light 

If we keep going now 
Life’s great adventure will leave us
Like letting go a heavy robe
And we will rise up and on into the glittered sky