You, you through your shining, painless, uninvaded eyes;
How did you see?
Past a mist of pain so smothering,
It was impossible to breathe in its midst,
How did you see?
Through a massive sludge of hatred so thick,
It clung and tugged until everything trying to pass
Through it became a part of it,
How did you see?
Into a vast, black emptiness that ran deeper,
And deeper until it reached a dungeon of nothingness;
A nothingness so consuming,
The only life able to exist there was the rodents who
Dredged filth and contaminated all that surrounded them,
How did you see?
Yet you saw. There’ hiding under the filth,
Less noticeable than the tiniest star on a bright starry night,
Was a minute speck of light, fighting to stay lit among the stench and bile,
How did you see?
It was so weary from running,
Shaking with terror at the prospect of death,
That was such a part of its being,
How did you see?
You pursued the spec like the sun chases a ray
That tries to run under a maple tree on a bright summer afternoon,
Never quite able to be separate,
How did you see?
The spec was drawn to the brilliance and intensity of your stare.
It grew like a ray of sunlight peeping through a sliver of hope,
Filling the emptiness with light so radiant,
It fought to permeate
