~Light~

A gray landscape

Nothing moved

In all that gray

Except for the small birds

Calling out 

To the reaching shadows

To the daylight shimmer

You are my

Sliver of light

My provocative thought

I could do

With a little craziness

In my life

The low bushes

Of peonies

Soft and heady,

Pillow and pink

Resting in the

Blue shadows

Of the windless air

If they see

The new me

They won’t see

The real me

Nothing is meant

To make perfect sense

Got to bend

With the wind

Roll with

The punches

Existing with 

Monotonous un-belonging 

I’ve come to find

That change is nature’s delight

I stand before you delighted

Holding onto

My sliver

Of light

Sarah Mahina Calvello