LIGHT

I picked up the bars

That were ripped apart

Every time I was freed

To build a cage.

Within it I reside.

I carve the emptiness 

Into figures whose touch 

I had long forgotten

Yet as I drew them 

Into an everlasting embrace

The only hands that reached my heart

Were my own.

I need no light

When I close my eyes

I can ravage the skies in a glimpse

And traverse the mountains high

I can follow the stars to all the places 

They never led me.

I need no light 

But my own 

To make the dried grasses grow

Into meadows green.