There Is No Sunlight In A Coalmine Poem by Terence George Craddock

awake behold the sun stars
let there be light first light
and there was birth light
spoken into existence

with a word

galaxies universes
a cosmos of elastic thought
birth born expanding thought
birthing flotsam solar systems

but there is no light in a coal
mine miners coal dust miners
going to pit work in darkness
finishing in womb darkness

mine miners

going to work in darkness
working all day in darkness
finishing work in darkness
going home in darkness

but a greater light

waits to awake not in the light
of a glimmer dawn in darkness faint
waiting to impale star darkness night
in sunlight day fine days burning bright

Copyright © Terence George Craddock