Illuminated Memories (Original Poem):

It's all an infinite world-wind of triggers

Which ignite blazes

Which burn through fields of flourishing flowers

Extinguishing, however not eradicating life

Creating new vibrant causes and providing significance to actions

To thoughts

Thoughts that lift from the mouth upward causing a colourful parade of emotion

To be poured and mixed to form spheres of kaleidoscopic visions

Where fires continue to burn

To resurrect light from darkness

To illuminate love and passion and all that lays hanging

Suspended in between

Between these spaces of oxygen

Of particles of existence

Are the tiniest gasps of breath

Of life

Reaching toward something desired

Craved in the moment and then it humbly travels afar

Appreciation of this fades into a lingering moment

A light which solemnly swears it will return

And you believe it as you create it

Your trust in the memory is what will keep it sustained in a suspension

In an existence which finds its way into all that it touches

In its whimsical caress

Locating its way back through the gloom and into the light.

(Artwork: Andrew Osta)