My poem “The Light Within” was originally published in Front Porch Review. As their website says, “a front porch is where we, young and old, congregate; where we assemble, gather, mingle, congeal, where we get together. And once there we speculate, pontificate, prevaricate, and expostulate; occasionally we speak words of universal truth.” My poem follows:
The Light Within
When the seeds of my body rose and swelled my bones, a constant presence remained behind the facade of aging.
Like a candle moving from window to window inside someone else’s home, the creature of my youth restlessly paces.