Glistening through the heavens the beauty of soul undetected.
Earthbound one - can you hope to espy his essence?
Struggling to break free his heart pounded into eternity.
Blackness leading to light was his destiny.
Where would we be now had his sentence been reversed?
On a trajectory never cursed?
Would he have been the slightly off-kilter kind?
Or the straight and steady of mind?
Would he have reflected the rainbow of life in his midst?
Or the substance of his brilliance?
Now he knows the riches of life above
and, I pray, of my love.
© 2001 Sandra Barrett Leroux