On Kindness And Refuge

Text and Photo ©Rick Burnett Baker 

All Rights Reserved 

Hope: Future And (Re)Birth

(re)birth 

again, after decades, my (un)reality

opens one door of many, my concubine 

of life’s necessities vanquished.

daylight peaks and wanes, darkness satiates, 

nourished and still;  it is the light of life, 

manifest within living silence. memory holds 

its germaneness in the ‘now’, becomes prophesy 

on linear moments beginning to end. those many ‘other’ 

doors remain closed. for now, how fortunate the future.

   

Poem/Photo ©Rick Burnett Baker 

All Rights Reserved 

(Photo taken in Livingston, Texas)