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
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
And in the
Dark I sit
Waiting for the
World to awaken
You beside me
Still sleeping dreaming
What I wonder
Me awake wishing
You to stir
Like a spoon
In my coffee
But dare I
Not for you
Roar to life
Like a thundering
Chainsaw it’s best
To let you
Sleep like kittens
Oh the morning
Is blue blue
Blue blue like
A Robins next
Surrounded by green
Such colors like
The wet pallet
Of a fresh
Artist crisp like
Jelly beans everything
Is sweet today
Even my eyes
Having been blessed
By this glory
HARLAN DIDRICKSON 