Into The Light Again
written by: Maria Chalastani
And when all these shadows of seclusion
are coaxed back to their humid cellars
and sent to oblivion
and we have all stretched ourselves
to the point of utter reinvention
and home has ceased its baffling route
from “prison” to “Eden”, then back to “prison”
and our loved ones can -hopefully- still give us
non-digital, smiling close-ups
let us wash the hands of time
to unrust them from their infected stillness
and embrace each other’s awkward first steps
into the new, unsettled realm
of pandemic reminiscences
and endemic absences
and let us not exchange
our “worst-case scenarios” but rather
our prayers for the fragile
prematurely-uprooted life
and a line from a poem which had kept the spark
alight in our soul’s humid cellars
until our shadows
found their way home.
- Wisdom-A Prayer - July 3, 2022
- Into The Light Again - April 17, 2020
- On Hold - November 6, 2019
