Poem: The Lightfinder by Craig O’Flaherty

You trace the way
through deepening shadow,
finding the spaces
still touched by the glow.

I stumble forward
not sure where to step,
then I stand where you are
and light paints the ground.

You stroke the foreground
with luminous touch,
and your words are soft hands
holding my fears.

As I step through my darkness
the anxiety starts to soften
and I start to see obstacles
as foreground in my life

I’m becoming my own Lightfinder
as I search the right path.