November 9-11, 2019

The Other Side

and sometimes the hand does help

reaches you before you go down

for the last time

pulls you from the deep’s embrace

sets you firmly back on solid ground

and the difference is magnificent

like how Rilian must have felt, undeceived

the Lady of the Green Kirtle vanquished

Underland yielding to the Dancing Lawn

he emerges from darkness into joy

sees and lives what he’d been missing