Light

she is lit from
within they say

incandescent

as if she swallowed
the moon whole

it’s not that she was
born under a myth
or raised by a star

it’s just the hope
inside her chest
she refuses to extinguish

because once
long ago
she decided
to live like a
lighthouse

bearing the light
in unbearable times

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