Deep within the bleakest blackest night
I stir awake, dazed from murky slumber
in my lonely bed, hours before the warming
orange of sunrise through the eastern window,
and then as eyes slowly clear from dreamtime’s
gauzy world, I gaze upon you my shadow self
standing tall and sure, you shine and smile
in the open doorway, beckoning me to trust
this new, unknown frontier, from whence
you have arrived.
