Celtic Time Begins in Darkness -Amy Elizabeth Robinson

 Listen.

What happens in darkness matters.

It's rest

then motion,

and not the other way around.

First rest,

   then nourish,

then move. The darkness

informs the light. The light

is not bright preface to exhaustion. The night

is not mere sequel to the day.

So let me rest now

through the bruised velvet hours.

Let me rest

as the night figures prowl.

I will listen

with my sleeping body.

I will say welcome.

I will enter into

this startling fulness

called my life.