Poem: The Epiphany (2013)

 

The Epiphany

 

 

 

Once I staggered in unknown darkness,

Unaware of my unsight.

I strove ahead,

Heedless of the surrounding

Formless void.

I was a preliterate child who,

Dragging her finger

Across the words of a page,

Thinks she reads.

 

Then a sudden spark

Tore through my unused eyes

And illuminated all the hollow places

I hadn’t known rang with echoes.

It howled like a song

I’ve never heard

That was plainly written

In hopeful anticipation of me.

It streaked across my inner sky

With a comet-fire flash,

Littering my sunless self

With sacred detritus

As it continued on its blazing way.

 

I cast my gaze about

And tried to blink away my wonder;

So this is what it is

To see.