Living with a lesser light

Living with a Lesser Light is a Quick Poem written off Guest Blogger Serena Sinclair’s

 O is for One Perfect Moment, #AtoZChallenge

of APRIL 20, 2017

This is the poem that prompted Friday’s guest blog One Perfect Moment.

Serena Sinclair

after the hourglass has filled

with time-worn sand

turned dusty and coarse

after the air has settled

still and stagnate

after the weight

of disintegrated decay

that plagued the mind

after the realization

that change is inevitable

after the faces

streaked with saline

after the anger

hot and unbridled

after denial

after rage

after acceptance

afterafterafter

after everything

comes one perfect moment.

—

Then, after comes….

—–

Living with…a Lesser Light

H. W. Bryce

(a hasty not written as it were between care giving calls)

After a lifetime together, One falls ill

And that One’s light begins to dim;

The Other one has to shine that much more bright

For the Other is now living with a lesser light.

So the Other one gathers his shining light beams

And learns to deal with what life seems,

He shines his light into the dark

And he guides the One right back towards the light.

The Other’s light gradually gains in strength

Building upon the challenges;

Unlike the moth the One gravitates to the dark

And bit by bit the darkened light fades to a spark.

But the love that was the light of their life

Is still guiding both, man and wife,

And whichever one it is, one is the guiding light

While one is living with a lesser light.

CREDIT: Serena Sinclair’s guest poem: https://serenasinclair.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/o-is-for-one-perfect-moment-atozchallenge/

Picture: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rays_of_light_in_St._John.JPG