Corner of the Sky

I am writing today for the sake of writing. I am painting words onto a blank slate just to be able to say that today, I wrote. I am not writing with purpose, or to share anything other than tiny black letters dotting a page. I am writing with the hope that somehow just the act of punching keys will start something, shift something, move something.

  I woke today with that familiar heaviness. That weight that has been pressing down on my heart now for months. That familiar aching, longing, loneliness still permeating each fibre of my being. Today I woke with the same fear, the same sadness, the same mountain before me.

  But today is different because today I am exercising my right to choose. Today I choose joy. Today I choose love. Today I choose light over darkness.

  There is a corner of the sky where light peeks through. A tiny bit of blue in the upper left of my window frame. It is stretching across the sky now. Illuminating the cherry blossoms, and the white lace curtains of the house across the courtyard.

  Today I choose to be like the sun. Through the thick blanket of grey, I persist. I am determined, to let my light shine once more.