Light is All Around

by Mike Russell 
after Luke Howard's song "Dappled Light"
 
Light is all                                   around me, breathe
it in and out.                              Touch it 
with a fingertip.                         Feel the grooves
of light speckle                          your forehead.
This is love                                 and lust and power.
Light is all                                   around us and it listens.
See if you can                            listen back to its pulse,
its shimmering                          gold. I see colours eat
me up but                                  there is no pain.
I am falling                                through the cosmos
and flying                                  through the sea.
I am found                                in this open space
and I am                                    free.  

Mike Russell is a non-verbal communicating poet with autism and PTSD. He is the leader of Brotherhood of the Wordless, a talented group of likeminded individuals with similar conditions. Mike likes to write and slam his poetry across Meanjin, Australia.