Hello, Light

Poem by Christine Crawford

Previously Featured in DTS Voice Magazine | Awarded 4th Place by 2024 Evangelical Press Association

Hello, Light

I remember, too, the sunrise. The miracle
of dawn just when I deemed myself
destined to dwell darkened forever

First, a flickering like tiny fireflies
of silver, then wavering like a lone
meek candle braving the horizon

Then peeking like golden dapples
through trees; hope dancing
and pirouetting in invitation

And finally, like you struck
your divine match and—reckoning
it to my heart—engulfed me.

And I remember how it drove
the darkness screaming. How,
at first, I stood bewildered, blinking

like an unburrowed mole before
your brilliance, astonished to find
that you warmed instead of blistered

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