Touch and Go

Brilliant light reaches down, a hand from above Touching life, illuminating lies, searing my retinas Like something holy that defies tangibility Reflecting upon the water as a striving, sorrowful soul A dream of death, the final moments of a friend Pushing the darkness into the despairing depths of my heart Hidden from the luminous brightness by walls of stygian gloom The hallowed secret a friendship locked away forever Night comes, a god of old billowing from the bowels of the earth Snuffing the light from our minds like hope crushed under fingers of death Something we once possessed, now transcendent in our memory Elusive laughter and light dancing across the pages of our life Tears mingle with the dew of dawn A fleeting fog vanished by the sun Emotion cloys our senses A miasma of feelings echoing into eventide The body a prison cell containing only a soul A vessel for the works of a heavenly deity A vicious fight for life, taking no prisoners Touch and go 3/31/21 "Touch and Go" for "This or That, Vol. 1" sponsored by Edward Ibeh