PRESENCE
Into the absence Inert chaos of nil A word falls Fires the cosmos With pure presence Extracts from grey nonbeing Energy of light Divides it from the dark Crystal shards Suffuse the universe In flowing colour Reflect in liquid movement Essence of life Give shadow from the heat Retire behind ebony For the sleep of night Fists reach and fight To grasp the rays that seep Between clenched fingers And elude all violation Greedy palms pose concrete tiers Woven with lies up to the skies Vain attempt to take light captive In the prism of cheap desires Oil-stained hands Toughened by power Sinewed Through manhandling Mark their spot A million silhouettes Deaden the light across the universe Dealing out absence once again A pinpoint pierces The centuries Insignificant To the naked eye Unwelcome presence Insistent morning star Invites to the risk That hope demands The light at the end Of the tunnel of this year Broadens if we dare to look As it shines on the inertia Of our own dark places That have allowed this world. Eternal constant Unquenchable source One day there will be No sun nor moon No standard lamp nor neon No fireworks nor sparklers No Christmas illuminations The pinprick of light Will banish the night By total presence
