Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.

Maya Angelou, American Memoirist and Poet Extraordinaire

. . .

The timely arrival of light,

Overshadows the darkness of night.

Night falls and is broken by day,

Day breaks and to twilight, gives way.

The carousel of gloom and glow,

Features on the faces of people we know.

For if you were to look around,

In the lurid light of day, gloom may be found.

Shrouded in a fleece of darkness, unable to see,

Vision is aided by a friend’s luminosity.

Earth pirouettes to nature’s symphony,

We, choose to dance, deliberately.

Therefore, dance you must; sunshine and moonglow,

Will never dampen or dull, the luminosity you store.

. . .

Granville D. Austin