That Light

There is, we think, a chance, at least,
of something like a magic feast
awaiting you tonight.

Look: see the makings of it here –
your day’s imaginings appear –
inviting: take a bite! –

that is, when what you call “asleep”
becomes your state of mind. A deep
experience of sight –

more inward than the one you know –
will then begin its lyric flow –
regaling you: while bright

live warm ingredients prepare
themselves into a gleaming fare
whose redolent delight

will fill you past your brim and spill
into the yawning dawn: until
you’ve fallen from its height –

and find that you are here again,
amassing life and musing when
you might get back that light.

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