Just when the
Darkness is deepest
The tiny firefly
Glows
Showing me the
Way to somewhere
Darkness creeps like
Nocturnal animals out
For the hunt
While despair grips
And squeezes out
Hope making the
Heart dusty dry
The one meaningless
Light blinking here
Come here here
And once again
Your life starts
Again not over
But freshly new
Big long yellow
School buses drive
Past me roaring
Like a pride
Of lions on
The Serengeti warning
Of their approach
As ant-like children
Climb aboard like
Business men off
To work last
Nights crickets still
Chirp as morning
Birds await their
Cues here today
Oh
Oh I’m so
So so so
Tired of saying
Goodbye
I’m like a
Child that’s lost
A dog or
A teenager that’s
Been dumped by
A varsity quarterback
I’ve closed like
A woman’s compact
For the last
Time
Oh
Oh I’m so
Ready so
So so so
Ready for that
Sweetly delicious hello
Hello
Is anyone there
And just when
I felt the
Root give way
And I began
To plummet stories
Down a hand
Snatched me from
My doom calling
Here up here
It was the
Sound of hope
Calling softly Cmere
Dawn rises slowly
Like the sleepy
Dreams tucked eyes
Of a child
Glowing the skies
Change from darkness
To orange like
Large fires stoked
Back to life
By sharp sticks
Morning comes slowly
Like eggs in
A skillet bubbling
Yellow white brown
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 