Something Dark

Photo: (c) Jamie K. Reaser

If you have not been visited by something dark,

beg for it. This world needs your active grieving,

to feel into its voids and diminishments and

ache so heartedly for the absent that it has

a chance to appear, that it can remain long enough

to be considered nothing exceptional at all,

rather, an exquisite, glittering normal that bonds

our likenesses.

For me, it was a raven. It had given away its

song and I was set upon the task of finding it.

I got lost along the way and when I called out

to myself in the hope of being found, I suddenly

recalled that the raven is a well-known

trickster. It never had a song.

~ Jamie K. Reaser, Author

From "Truth and Beauty" (a work in progress)

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