Go Where The Light Is
she calls herself a writer
but—
some days,
she cannot string together
words
to depict
this nightmare from which
we cannot wake up.
on those days—
she reaches for her camera
and wanders the house,
like a nomad,
desperate,
rummaging for pockets
of sunshine
and joy
and something else she cannot name.
she follows the glow
from glimmer to blaze,
room to room,
mirror to mirror,
dust to dust,
and it’s there,
in the shadows,
that she finds
what she didn’t even know
she was looking for:
hope,
a reminder—
light always wins.
the darkness has not overcome it.
“Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.” - Madeline L'Engle
This post was written as part of a blog hop with Exhale—an online community of women pursuing creativity alongside motherhood, led by the writing team behind Coffee + Crumbs. Click here to read the next post in this series "Go Where the Light Is".
Graphic by Phoenix Feathers Calligraphy.
