All feelings, All conditions
have their place within us
solemn actors with roles to play
important and impermanent
never to stay
but simply to contrast softer mornings.
In dark rooms
candles burn brighter,
After heartbreak
lips taste sweeter,
Before water freezes
birds fly somewhere warmer.
I will befriend depression
let him shelter this weary soul
when rest is needed more than its known.
I will make anxiety my lover
to make my blood circulate
when my limbs must carry me elsewhere.
The darker the room
the brighter the candle’s flame
and I know that flame…
will be spectacular.
Of Poems and Places 