Curtain

Welcome to the Spot Writers. This month’s prompt is to write a piece involving a source of light (this can be taken literally or metaphorically). Today’s poem comes to us from Val Muller, author of the Corgi Capers kidlit mystery series.

Curtain

by Val Muller

Some days on the way to work

When I take that one road,

The one with all the farms and the long fences,

The Sun is just right

Rising over the horizon,

Kissing the dew speckled fields.

For an instant, the rest of the world

Disappears

And I am alone with the golden aether:

A frozen moment,

Timeless and transcendent.

Before the curtain falls again

And I return to thoughts of work or the commute,

I am in a place where hot and cold

Do not exist,

Where there is neither up nor down,

Where nothing is discrete,

Darkness unheard of.

And in that timelessness,

Only a brief moment of my morning

But somehow an eternity,

I know that the Sun that is

The entire light of our world

Is just a pinhole in the curtain

Of what lies beyond.

 

 

The Spot Writers:

Val Muller: http://valmuller.com/blog/

Catherine A. MacKenzie: https://writingwicket.wordpress.com/wicker-chitter/

Phil Yeats: https://alankemisterauthor.wordpress.com

Chiara De Giorgi: https://chiaradegiorgi.blogspot.com/