
There Be Light
Let there be light
is a just phrase
that echoes through
all our days
In a dark room
a beautiful vase
that drives away doom
is hid from thine gaze
At night, it is all the more
difficult to navigate a maze
especially when giv'n chase
by the Bullish man-bore
Light don faze
dark forces in concert
looking to graze
a foot, a hand, a personage
Stories of age do set the stage
a case of dark vs light
by suited arc,
perspective or slight
Light doth sho' near limitless might
in tales of old,
and that anew
yet amaze again and again
then assuage that set alight
See you tha’ craze
in time for aid
Burn on and on
Feel you tha’ shame
in time for shade
Run on and on
in the words most holy
in the haze of folly
in the rolly-molly
Let there be light
a phrase that means more
thought or not
even in th’face
of one or none disgraced
On the pace-race along
away from the path all wrong
where darkness lies in wait
Pull me with those hands
strong and long
if I doth go further
into black
Hope, do I, to find light
in the hoarse of darker night
Only if nothing I felt is fully real
can I ever find’t lit again
As bats of evil
fly in the caves
where sounds do echo
through all my days
right is light
What time is it?
Noon-day and so.
Now I delight.
©2020 by Ayo Okikiolu.
Context:
Light fascinates me. I really wanted to write a poem with a lot of olden-day imagery and phrase-ry. Also, in this poem, I really talk about God and what He means to me, especially when I say "Pull me with those hands..."
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