Sometimes it’s tough to see a way

Art - Kay Nielsen - England(Danish), from East of the Sun, West of the Moon, 1914

Sometimes,
it’s tough
to see a way to thrive.
Some nights 
its enough 
to meet the day alive.

The mean voice
demeaning
from the In-Between;
yesterday
a whisper,
today a scream. 

Hope’s
a thinning glimmer,
a dimming spark,
a firefly 
dying 
in the dismal dark. 

Know this…
I’m with you 
to the rising light;
the going moment
will arrive,
but not tonight.  

Lee DeNoya - Atlanta, August 2022