Light

I’ll never again

waste my love on one who doesn’t want me.

I’ll shine my light

and if someone shines it back like a mirror

we’ll embrace in our shared spirit

and walk like lions to the beat of our hearts.

I’ll never again

look for love in dark alleys and basements,

settle for the ghosts I find

and stay stuck in prisons,

chained starving to walls

because I long for freedom,

open plains and expansive oceans,

the shining light of the sun’s rays

spreading the love that lives within us all.

If I ever wander into a dead end

I’ll never again spend too much time there.

I’ll turn and leave

towards the highway to the unknown future,

lined with evergreens,

mountains rising in the distance like mammoth shadows,

a whole world opening before my eyes

with the colors of the rainbow and flowers

and the pinks, yellows, and oranges of a distant sunset.