Before the Light

I awoke just before the light

Photo: © David Whyte

Before the Light

I awoke just before light
reached this corner of the world.

Not a glimmer in the quiet cabin,
only the sound of embers settling back
into the first and original light
from which they came, the nugget red glow
of their interior worlds untouched as yet,
still smoored by ashes and the lees
of yesterday’s heat.

One touc…