Light’s labour

‘Believing in the Light you shall not abide in darkness’. – George Fox (1654)

Light’s labour
is to tell darkness back,
push it toward eternity’s edge –

although much darkness slips back
through, grieving the hearts 
of all who must live here.

Like lead, darkness weighs
nearly as much as gold.

But Light’s feel 
is the alchemy of love
falling in bright colour, 

as stars sometimes do,
back to earth’s gravity.

There turned to chemical
(even among fireflies)
it burns gold-like

attracting more love still,
across open hearts,

against night’s threshold.

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Ed Higgins is an American poet and short fiction writer whose work has appeared in various print and online journals. Ed is Asst. Fiction Editor for Brilliant Flash Fiction. He has a small organic farm in the United States of America, where he raises a menagerie of animals, including a rooster named StarTrek.