Dark and shine,

Art - Angel Dominguez, Spain, 2004, from The Girl Who Wrote Her Own Fairytale

Dark and shine, 
dark and shine;
so go the days, 
so cycle lives. 

Cast shadows
seem so vast;
no plain way
to navigate past. 

Vague hazes
permeate;
paintings fade
to murky shades. 

The indigo
of yin and woe
may make us say,
“to stay or go?” 

When you’re empty,
reach to me;
we’ll greet daybreak 
quietly. 

Light will rise.
Every time…
to chase the grays 
across the sky. 

Rise and fall,
rise and fall;
as with sunrays,
so for us all. 

Lee DeNoya - Atlanta, October 2023