One Million Lights
By Page Bishop
Look, Mom!
Night blue.
My favorite color.
How did they know I was coming?
One million tiny blue lights
Illuminate the path.
Blue—not blue
Color of her eyes.
“Do you mean Periwinkle?”
No, Mom.
Night blue.
You know—half blue, half purple.
Chit Chat,
Chit Chat.
Skips along the path.
Mom, hold my hand!
“Look, Cami!
There, across the water."
In one million tiny white lights-
“Peace on Earth," we say.
Words of hope
Reflected in her eyes.
Does she know
How brightly they shine?
About the Creator
Page Bishop
Mom. Yogi. Writer. Spiritual Being.
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One Million Lights
This is about my daughter, Cami, then age 10. On Christmas Eve we went (just the two of us, I am a single parent) to Busch Gardens Williamsburg, which is a theme park in our hometown. We were standing on the bridge between "Italy" and "Germany" and saw a giant sign all lit up in Christmas lights that said, "Peace on Earth." I wanted to capture that moment in words, with her pointing across the water and us standing there in a moment of awe and appreciation. She was looking at the lights; I was looking at her.
By Page Bishop5 years ago in Poets
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