Hopeful Silence

The silence in my head is frightening.
Where have you been all my non-life?

It’s as if this moment
–here—
(Where it’s just the instant happening)
Is where Creation began.
Right now life is among us
Between us
It hovers barely out of reach
Tickling our auras.

It’s a cosmic cabal
A prophecy of hope stolen away
By the machinations of the Great Beast.
And here we are in the middle of it!
A singular star lights the Path
Proclaiming itself to be a hopeful destination.

Maybe the light lies –there—
Maybe my angel awaits me –there-
Her face aglow with messianic radiance.

Then I look inward,
Toward Heaven,
And I see where you dwell.
—-Jason DeGray