Firefly

See you through the haze
Watching in a daze
Firefly in my hand

A fleeting moment

Like slipping sand.

I’m mesmerized

By blinking light

Lighthouse in darkest night.

Reach out

And try to hold,

But there’s no telling

How this may unfold.

Firefly if you should land

Tell me your story and

Leave me time to feel

Grateful that wisdom heels.

I know you cannot stay.

Must fly before its day,

To illuminate the sky

Before that final sigh.

Thank you for taking time,

That I may worship the sublime

Glow that you leave behind,

Still resonating in my mind.

The Earning

Where there is darkness be the light.
Where there is light mark the shadows,
Lest the darkness come to feel ignored,
And set its sights upon returning.

Others in light may ridicule your vigilance,
Because they have never been alone in darkness,
So they do not appreciate the danger.
See where they stand in the journey of life
And let them speak their naivety.
When your light finds them in darkness
They will understand what previously they could not.
For the world runs in cycles,
From night to day, And day to night,
Both finding each of us in their turn.

The light from without is fleeting,
But the light from within can be made steady,
By the life serving choices of a rational mind.
All life is a value worthy of your concern,
But a life which cannot conceive of death is also a danger.
Only through loss can we extrapolate greater loss
And in imagining thusly, gird against it.
Only through fear, can we find courage.

Your light is a badge upon your soul,
Commemorating the trials you have overcome.
Wear it so that others may know that it can be earned,
But do not cheat them of the earning.
There is no light within, without the earning.