Anyone Can Light A Match In The Dark
Some say that I never really knew
the things that I needed to know
in order to survive
but if you are reading this tonight
it means that I exceeded
more than a few low expectations
that I went uphill on my knees
year after year
undeterred
and that all of the shouting
from over my shoulder
was no angry God
just a few hungry ghosts
that I refused to feed
and when I look back on it now
nothing haunts me,
I stood the test,
not of time,
but of the emptiness that sits between time
what gets filled with the light
you learn to hide from all of the death eaters
the cheerleaders of nothing and nowhere
whose hands
at the end of the day
have no real creases of their own
no signs of having survived
with only this:
the will and the need to go on.
- James Diaz 2015
James Diaz lives in Upstate New York. His
poetry can be found in Chronogram, Calliope, Ditch, The Voices Project and A
Long Story Short.
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