BY JULIE BRANDON

When the light returns

We’ll know 

There is a space between darkness and light

So small

So very narrow

Blink and you’ll miss it

Gone in a breath

The space where pain turns to joy

Happiness becomes sorrow

We straddle the unseeable line

Turning first one way then the other

Teetering on the razor thin blade of separation 

Deep black or blinding light

And every shade in between

We’ll know

In our land

To our people

When the light returns