Slant of Light

"There's a certain slant of light...." It's the opening line of an Emily Dickinson poem of the same name. On winter afternoons, she sees the sunlight slanting and it awakens something inside her, a dormant longing for meaning; "Heavenly hurt it gives us/We can find no scar/but internal difference/Where the meanings are." Light does that, you see. On grey days like this when the opaque sky reflects my heart and the sunlight seeps through a veil of clouds to fill the stark, vivid world...something moves in response, something deep inside of me. Is it an existentialist desire for something more? An echo of all the dreams trying to wake up inside of me? It gives me a hollow, ghostly grief...but it also brings me hope. I'm a writer. No matter if no one reads me, if no one hears me: still, I will write.
What does the light tell you?

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  1. This is breathtaking and such a great example of your observations! I love how you view the world.

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    1. Thank you so much! As for my view of the world? I owe a lot to my mom :)

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