For friends who have challenges - Penny Hackett-Evans

[Lawrence Robinson]

For friends who have challenges

I write to say
I am sending you light.
Tiny light –
One match struck.
The first spark
for your dry kindling.
Or maybe a pinprick
of starlight coming from
millions of miles and years
just into your dark room.
Or maybe one small white candle,
warm wax dripping into the cold.
Or the light of one glow worm
making a hazy green mysterious spot.

Not to overwhelm this darkness
where you shelter.  But only
to remind you
that you are accompanied
there by the softest hope.

	- Penny Hackett-Evans