Nightlight

Ten years later I've remembered something small...from a night when I was little, when a very tiny thing changed me.

A nightlight memory

 

Some porcelain moonstone

Mimicking that same

Celestial body

shining

Amidst the empty

infinite potential of a

Child’s bedtime imagination

 

A remembered single glow

Left over from the day

A single lamplight

Living near the floor

 

The image cast across a dark sky

Not stained or cut out of the stone

Instead

Hollowed out to let the light shine brighter, just there, and there

 

I did not know

what I knew, as what

I knew was often changed

 

On that night I saw

 

It is not always what you obtain

That gives a shadow its shape

But what exists around you

In its simple absence

That casts the larger image across

Your broad night

 

I know now

What we lose may create

the permanent shadow

what we have may leave only

ordinary darkness

hollow in a way

absence in not.

Reviews

[♥ Ari Skye ♥]

This is a really great piece! I love the description. It had me there with you when you were a child. I think we have memories like this. It's stuck with us and even though it could be tiny or huge, It was enough on our minds to change us.
Very good job. Keep up the great work!