Melting Light

#5 Melting Light

All things are beautiful, for there is light and shadow.

I read this quote in one of my favorite art books.

So it's always the light leading the tip of my pen.

The desk lamp glowing late at night was light

The dawn seeping through the curtains was light

The sunset painting the room in orange-red was light

The reflection on his guitar pick was also light

The joy once bounced beneath your stage was also light

What burned our photos in yellow, was also light

All of this tiny bit of life, filled my room as kingdom lights.

And I once believed people said Long live the kingdom.

Like the happily ever after in all the tales that we wrote and painted.

But lights come with shadows

The fox said, "One runs the risk of weeping a little if one allows himself to be tamed."

That song called Long Live wrote, "But if God forbid, fate should step in and force us into a goodbye"

The melting candle was also light

A moment of firework was also light

You were also light The fleeting light of youth

The morning arrived as usual after the night you left me,

was also light.

Credit Saint-Exupéry, A. (1943) The Little Prince. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock.

Swift, T. (2010) ‘Long Live’ , Speak Now.