This month's poem

LIGHT

 

There is that clear light again!

            Obliquely from the right.

See how the pearl glows!

            Brighter every year,

Now twenty-two times brighter

            Than the first time I saw it. 

Then the glow dazzled out shadows;

            Now the brightness raises a starker contrast. 

Then shadows of failure were dimmed by love’s hope;

Now the shadows are a different shade

            But the love-light is stronger. 

The mortgage is nearly paid off

            Against the soaring value of the equity. 

And now my eyes can no longer focus

            Without the glowing pearl

                        At the centre of their landscape.

 (Written for our wedding anniversary in 1999)

Note: The name, Margaret, comes from the Greek word for "pearl".