Are you ready
for the Sun to come?
Are you done with
this endless darkness?
Hope opens your eyes,
now you’re left dealing
with the consequences
of your reckless hand.
Is there enough
left within you
to cover the distance
from your current status
to here?
Moving you to the light
from shadow
is more work than
we’re used to, here.
Once you’re free
of the last tendrils
of darkness,
will you heal well
in the sunshine?
Or will you burn
and itch and peel?
Degraded by exposure.
Consumed and vulnerable.
I guess that everyone
has to pay the consequence
of how they live
in darkness.
In the Sun
we heal,
but sometimes only after
the light destroys us.
Humility.
Now I see that you’re
feeling better,
ready to get up
and move around.
Take in a little bit
of this bright life,
I know if feels alright,
finally.
When you’re good and healthy
and feeling stronger,
then you can
pick up your simple labors
and start to build
your life again.
Through sweat and toil
you’ll find who you are,
not who you’ve been.
Nothing feels like accomplishing
existence.
Life in the Sun
is good again,
so step into the sunlight.
Rest and heal your body
and your mind.
The work is all ahead.
Destruction is behind.
This is what it takes
to be alive.
HG – 2018
