Refractions

Refractions

Are You only found in simplicity

Or is it only in complexity?

Could it possibly be a “both” and an “and”

That brings us to the touch of a Father’s hand

Could it be my eyes are so close to me

That I cannot see the good that sets me free?

I sense the fears, the angers, the distractions

Not knowing the hopes that release the refractions

Sending the light in tens of thousands of directions

More colors than I could ever know

Whether I take it in, in its glorious context

Or whether I take it in fully without

There is still a hue, a vague, a shade, a glimpse

That brings a bright spark back in to my DNA.

The Moment

Often at sunset

when the sky is a series of colors indescribable 

But every one of them a hue of violet and rose

It is at that moment I realize

There is a greater world

There is a reality more real than the one I know

It’s not that I don’t like the skies of blue

But it’s that these colors, these phases, these hues

Are stepping stones to a more lovely place

I can almost feel the air

it is alive

These moments are the moments living is all about

These moments are the moments my heart lets out a shout

Because it sees the things that I don’t see

It feels the things that I have never felt

Nor could ever feel

And survive to relive the experience

I simply wish sometimes these moments were eternal

Because I always realize that they are

K, Duane Carter 4/21/12

answer

answer

so often we want answers in black and white

yet that is not how they come

that isn’t how it was designed

sure it makes it so much simpler

because things are so much simpler when they’re dead

so our answers come not at all

or when they do

they’re red and yellow

still missing some points

but that is not the point

the point is to enjoy the beauty and the wonder

as it contrasts against our blacks and whites

living things amongst the dead

the answer comes in yellow and red

K, Duane Carter 10-27-11