Answers in the darkness

Answers in the darkness

Questions that come to light

Distance from our loved ones

Enemies here to fight

And stars that are long gone

Still sparkle in the night

All the colors combined

Produces only white

Start at the finish line

Start at the finish line

Work backwards from the end

Back down the same hillside

Just before the ascend

To the child left behind

To when the World was small

And dreams, big and bright, were

The answer to it all

Rhythms without rhyme or

Rhythms without rhyme or

Reason are waking me

Breaking the silence that

Was clearly meant to be

The World is wide awake

No longer sensing dark

Beside the nightingale

Is a rambunctious lark

For an instant, rejoice

For an instant, rejoice

The moment swells with grace

Life and light and shadows

Fall perfectly in place

Movement turns to dance steps

A song swirls in chorus

And a shy heart opens

And becomes more porous

A broken ornament

A broken ornament

A burn hole and dead spark

Here’s the conclusion and

The indelible mark

No vocabulary

A silent alphabet

Another Life finished

Another sun has set

The urgency, the rush

The urgency, the rush

Trying to get somewhere

The indifferent crowd

The few inches per square

Buildings shadow the street

Narrow pieces of sky

Pushing past equally

Determined passersby

Perhaps there’s nothing more

Perhaps there’s nothing more

Nothing behind the door

Gone, the existing floor

No chances to repeat

Perhaps what we hold dear

Are these moments so near

The joy, the thought, the fear

The striving to complete