Callie Carroll - Candela

You go about the business of your life
Gulping great gusts of air
Emitting an exquisite light,
Lovely luminary.

Bioluminescence, your birthright
Heir to the contained and continuous
explosion of the sun-
Star stuff in singular form.

Me?
I swim my murky night-cave,
Sallow,
blinded by a dismal, desparing darkness.
Memories of what i used to see return
to stab my heavy (my hungry) heart.

And yet,
and yet...
I marvel at my sighted offspring-
I marvel at your light.

Callie Carroll

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