Prospects (Things Were Looking Up)

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star. - Thoreau

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the night was black as coal

dirty, dusty dreams traveled up and down the shaft of his mind

the light on his helmet would never be enough

the canary was dying

but someone had to keep the home fire burning 

and the briquettes coming

Author's Note

"Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

I often used to ponder on the plight of the miner working in terrible conditions on the coal face. He knew he would see daylight at the end of his shift all being well. If you are stuck in a dark tunnel with a pin pick of light at the end of it, you are going to need to be mighty patient. Depression takes time and effort to work through. Well penned Pete. Your pen is prolific at the current time :)

Chris.

[Pete]

i could never be one - way too dismal and claustrophobic. i feel for those folks. what they deal with speaks a lonely, struggling metaphor of life ... :)

[Poetic Beauty]

Sometimes we get so busy trying to become something that life passes us by in second of a lightning strike.

We need to learn to slow down and enjoy life. Pause for a moment and live in the moment

[Pete]

thanks pb. can't disagree with anything you've said. life is changing so quickly we fear being left behind. tv and internet ads suggest things we should have and do to "feel good about ourselves". slow and deep is the path for me ... :

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us." - Thoreau