Illumine

By dim lamplight erase the word god seven times seven times. By fading sunlight imagine forgiveness. Create characters who toil and tread on this earth just to breathe once in a body they recognize. In Russian that word is also to learn. To uncover, discover, uznavat’. By reflected moonlight off bitter snow wallow in your own misery so long you forget anyone else exists. By pale pink sunrise remember that the universe of harm is vast and the cosmos of trial by error is unending—and then remember all things end, god ends, eternity ends, empire ends, beginnings end, endings end, light ends with the night, or with the flick of a switch, or with the shutter of an eyelid.