Though she once, At the moment of her birth, Shone with immeasurable light, Unadulterated, unremitting, unashamed Breaking the barriers of time and space Wide-eyed emerging into that very first day Unwrapping the shadowed arms of the other side
Though she proclaimed I am here! Like the brightest star, Speaking with her spirit alone
Having not yet lost The language of God
Though she was at that moment Lifted into her place Embraced by vast, light-laden arcs Cast just right A speck of hope within the wide Galaxy of life
Though she emerged bright And sure,
She fell
She plunged through a darkness that stole it all Light years of cold Voices that battered the Stardust core Of her soul
Until one day At the edge of some endless abyss She turned and tried to find her own star amongst the farthest Reaches of the night sky, Eyes seeking in the black, And at last perceived the faintest glow, A tiny spark from so many, many years ago, A remnant of a little girl she once knew.
But the pain is just too far And the cruel wind slaps at her reaching arms And so she just steps back and lets herself fall Away
Away from the light.
Away from it all.
For my mom, for me, for all. How the darkness can carry us so far. Away. I still believe we were born of light, once.