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Light
by Gabe Redel

A sheet of sun was over his skin.
He thought about the healthy things
life has to offer.
He thought about
his mind
and that it was not in him any longer.

The dirt under his fingernails
soaked through with sweat.
Water rolled over his heart.
He was with her.
Her face and her voice
pushed the time away.

Up ahead
out of the darkness
was more than cool thoughts.
He knew he had a future.
He knew he had to reach for it.
It was not where he was.

It was not around him today.
It was in the heat
wrapping against his body.

The water
that beaded against his skin
were the letters
of a crying prophet.

In his thoughts
he wanted to be there.
All over his body
and across his lips
and against the mind that he no longer recognized.

It had taken him.
It had taken who he was
and put him in the ground
long before he knew
that the sun and the water
were taking him to where he wanted to be.