Image: Sonja Braas, The Passage, Week 38, 2011
it’s so dark
I’ve put the lights on
to illuminate the sudden gloom
of thoughts and feelings
my eyes shuttering
it’s so dark
a sudden stripping of the light
by clouds weighing heavy
so I can’t see the sky
and it’s only morning
the day descending
and already I sense the night
so close
yet above
this smother of grey
there is still the sun
© Angela Jooste