Looking for the Light Today the light is stronger As spring overcomes Winter incrementally But relentlessly Spring before its entering After wintering The light is hesitating But I am waiting Yesterday it looked away But it looked today Like it was looking for me Opening to be What I was hoping to see The lotus unfolds And the light is what it holds Spring is what becomes Of me transcendentally In the end stronger Even though it took all night Looking for the light Looking for me anyway Though it takes all day Tomorrow will be longer If it ever comes For a moment maybe more Than the day before To live it and to love it To make art of it Take to heart as part of it When the light comes true When the moment more is right I know what to do For a moment more or two When the light is bright Enough to see it maybe From what I have seen Of it in the in between The light is about Insight from the inside out In a quiet place Quite apart from time and space In the light of spring Inside me and everything After all the fear Not up in the sky but here What is out of sight But in sight inside insight Seen and yet unseen Where the light knows what I mean In a place of grace But of coming face to face With reality In the dark where I have been I see it I feel It I believe it is real In an open mind And a hopeful heart I find What I should have known When I thought I was alone In the dark again It was looking for me then The light is within Though without it took so long Looking for the light Looking for me all along Steven Curtis Lance