Light

 Light

I do not love you less … now

. . . .
that all that light once gave
The graduate dark should now revoke.

    —Bearded Oaks,” Robert Penn Warren

On this day in 1879

Albert Einstein was born at the speed

of light.  “Light. he said, “ is the only

constant in the world, and everything

else is relative.”  The world said “O. K.,

that sounds reasonable.”

In 1832 the Lord offered

an olive leaf to those who would receive

the light, “the law by which all

things are governed.”  But the world

said no, and killed the Prophet

who told them so.

Just like when Jesus came:   “I am

the light and the life of the world.”

But the world preferred its own dark,

where even though light shines,

the darkness chooses not to comprehend.

                              —Donnell Hunter

                                                      14 March 2012