Viv

Viv,

It’s an oddity that you come to me at night,

Because you are sunshine breaking through the clouds at dusk.

You are the remedy to the shadows that chase me to and fro,

A sweet taste to swallow.

You are unlike any creature I know.

A mystery, an open book, a paragon.

What would you say if I told you I think of you often?

That you are the first since I made the choice

To stand up…

Out of the darkness,

Gulping air from my drowning.

What light you bring despite your own darkness.

A little starlight in the sky that tells me I’m not free,

But the chains no longer bind me.