Some things are best seen in darkness

Here's the sixth of the series of eight cards that the Scottish Poetry Library has produced for National Poetry Day (the theme this year is light) ...

... it's by Robin Fulton Macpherson - and can also be read in full here:


In the Dark

God said: Let the dark be dark.
Let the stars shine properly.
And let darkness with no stars
heal the damage caused by light.

Men said: Let there be light all
night through, where there is no-one
much or no-one at all, let
the gathered haze from street-lamps,
undying brand-names, full-blaze
unpopulated windows
stain the undersides of clouds
even when nights are cloudless.

God said: Light itself needs rest.
Some things are best seen, unseen,
in darkness unhindered by
Great Light. Me, for example.

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Robin Fulton Macpherson (1937 - )

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