Whispering Into Light
From Carey Champion
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From Carey Champion
The first of four poems written by Maria Hamilton Abegunde for the 2022-2023 Stargazing: Re/Imagining the Life of Elizabeth "Lizzie" Breckenridge arts and humanities project.
Whispering into Light (Movement 1)
© 2022 Maria Hamilton Abegunde
The stars don’t know I look at them. They don’t see me. Though, I cannot be sure. I stand here, face up. Every night. I am light like they are. What’s on the other side of their brilliance?
If I close my eyes long enough, can I be there and not here? Could I stay? Or would someone call me back, to be so kind, to the children? To be so prompt with the dinner? To be so … me. I want to be so me, whatever that means. I’m going to whisper to them. The stars. Surely whispering into light will carry a message to the other side of time.