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Sonny's Blues

Sonny’s blues...
the cup of trembling
shaking within.
Making sense of suffering
and wondering
how he could help them all listen.
Cause the suffering can’t be lessened,
but it can be accepted;
embraced as part of the story
that connects you and me.
And this,
this is the light amongst darkness.
No use in trying to escape or hide;
the darkness boils on inside
waiting to be put to form
transformed
no longer foreign
or feared
yet neither familiar nor endeared,
but alive, it’s always alive!
The more this is denied
the more it takes of life.
Recognizing that the darkness residing in you
also dwells in me
allows us both to be free.
And this,
this is the light amongst darkness.

(2015)

Inspired by James Baldwin's short story "Sonny's Blues" from Going to Meet the Man (1965).

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