To Reflect:

 

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