It’s the big, clear Lanark skies that provide the canopy of a million stars each night
a comforting blanket offering up the knowledge that there’s infinitely more
in this universe then our daily preoccupations
All is quieted under the twinkling lights – absorbed in the space between here and there
and that steely silence carries me beyond where I stand now to who I want to be.
It seems too perfect. I can’t remain still and transfixed in this serenity
So I pull back from the numbing expanse and stumble forward into my darkness,
with thoughts of my next day and the challenge of becoming that new man
and filling my world with the warmth and the light of just one unfathomable star.
(ed. – This poem was written in Spring 2013, since our family’s move to Almonte. It is one poem in a compilation of verse just released under the title of Midstep – A dozen poems towards where I want to be. To get your copy of Midstep, contact chrisg.george@gmail.com.)
MIDSTEP – A dozen poems towards where I want to be
