Holy Days

Image, Vincent Van Gogh, Road with Cypress and Star, 1890

These are my holy days

when dark spirits inundate

the mystic forest

and urge me with purling song

into empty waters.

But I’ll stop this descent

into somnolent night.

I see a new way to fight

this terminal pain.

Looking into your eyes

at last I confess

your brighter path

and joyfully say,

Yes!

(20 Nov 2012)