A Lily in Darkness: Exiled Voices

Darkness comes to each hour

filled with crooked things

unhinged petals

made bitter wreaking in war.

 

Not thinking anesthetized

we lapse loose in dialogue

varied in length

beyond understanding.

 

A female lily with a secret eye,

rises in black still water

lacking light before nightfall

in the perilous pond.

 

Exiled eyes thirst for hope

in this water-lily world

a destination despite

inadequate answers.

 

In the midst we find

delicate beauty

witness its freedom

and search for harmony

 

And then—sunlight

splashes from silence to

hear a woman’s voice…