How You Can Still Be Light Poem by RIC BASTASA

A number of friends encircling you
in your misery is a big comfort but
you will be lost inside them and you
are in no position anymore to probe
the recesses of your sorrow: you will
soon forget how to cure it.

try being solitary in that journey to
creativity: marvel at all discoveries
how your shadow follows you and you
control its shape and form and movements
against the light. How darkness can be
a home and how you can still be light.