WERE IT TOO DARK

 

           Were it too

                    dark to

          

              to see              stars

 

                 I’d reach

               for

            moonlight

 

                 to reflect

                 my solitude

 

alone. . .                            I,  I

 

             and an image

                               of you. . .

 

                       my soul

                       still reflects

                       beams of light

 

                 despite sorrow

            and decay

 

                 I find

no                     way                       to

                     escape

 

          yet realize

          I am

          not trapped

 

               save by

                    my own

 

              prison cells

 

October 2, 1988

 

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