Is the first awakening any better than the last?
Or must we always yearn for what is past?
The sun breaks open the darkness we are closed within.
Even in darkness our light is never dimmed.
Must we compete, then with the light we face at dawn?
Must we shine brighter, hotter, higher, hour after hour
until exhaustion overtakes our effort to shine divine?
Finally, darkness comes to embrace us, calm us, take us
where we may dream of what will be, what was, what is.
Is the first awakening any better than the last?
Will the next awakening be even better than those past?
annarino writes 