Dark Light

Beginning the end

Was destiny’s way

To birth in freefall,

Finding purchase by fate.

Such intention for one’s start

Now dictates acceptance

Of design’s order,

To give comfort and resolve

For the completion of the cycle.

Such has become the calling

Of a man who now sees

Through and beyond the dark light.

How luminous is wisdom’s glow,

A light that permeates through

Experience,

Lessons learned,

Disappointments,

And the passion of empathy

Often shielded with love.

How challenging this journey

Through knowledge,

Hand-held by enlightenment,

Revealing without fanfare

Simple warmth and compassion

For smiles and frowns

Along the way

As the trek leads one higher

And higher

Up through the clouds of doubt

To the dark light revealed.

Such opaqueness like closed eyelids

Reflecting the past,

Lighting the present,

And beaming toward the future,

Discovers

Such awareness embraces radiance

As the understanding

That opaque darkness

Was necessary

To recognize life’s illuminate light.