When the dark threatens
When you can feel it
Like a chill in your bones
When the clouds gather
And obscure the light
Faith says it is still there
Hope rides the light
Piercing the darkness
It needs only the faintest flicker
To reflect:
A memory
A whisper
A breath
That says, ‘Not yet’
Refusing to surrender
Remembering the light
To reflect:
In another’s eyes
In a song remembered
In the warmth of a hand
Held too long
The shape of what was loved
The echo of a name
The warmth that lingers
Across the ash of what was burned
To reflect:
A voice calling back
The name you thought forgotten
A step toward the edge
The shimmer that survived the fall
The part untouched by the feast
The ember the dark could not consume
A defiance in the decay
A rhythm beneath the entropy
To reflect:
A tear unclaimed by sorrow
A sigh that outlasts thunder
A light the abyss cannot swallow
To reflect:
Off the surface of the water
Through the crack in a stone
From the echo of a breath
Buried in silence
The darkness
Will not win
It cannot
Reflect
© Ron Simpson Jr.
October 23, 2025
