Thursday, 29 February 2024

Subtleties…

James Callahan

February 29

Wonderful things can be seen
with the naked eye of youth,
unblurred and undarkened by life -
a thousand stars on a cloudless night,
in eighty-eight constellations
like the keys on the piano
I never got around to learning;
well away from where we live,
unpolluted by the light we need;
to see such unseen things we must
deny ourselves, take up a cross
of darkness - the same darkness
that scared us as children - to view
the brightness and faintness,
subtleties only now we can appreciate
and only now can't make out
with our undressed eye.