Brian Kelly Irons

The light enveloped me and covered me like warm rain on a hot summer day. I felt renewed in its glow. Awkwardly, I reached out to touch it and felt its warmth radiate through me as if the light had touched me in return. I quickly retracted, nervous and wary that I would spoil something so delicate, so beautiful. However, as time marched slowly onward, I was aware that this precious light was moving closer to me. I became bathed in it. Within the light, the world was different, better…almost. The light moved over me and I willed myself to move with the light as it echoed my every movement. The light is touching me, and I feel the intensity grow with an electric pulse.

With a slight hesitation, the light began to speak to me, and I felt a shudder throughout my soul. I shook as the light spoke within me. There was music of a kind that my ears had never witnessed. The sound was so beautiful that there are no words that currently exist to describe it. To hear it is to worship it. The light showed me things, things not of this world but of an existence so enriched with love and passion that I wished to shield my eyes from such beauty.

Then, without any warning whatsoever, the light revealed itself to me. It was then that I was hit with an overwhelming sense of having never lived my life; that I was only now becoming aware of the beauty that I had missed out on for so long. The light became alive to me, and once again, I felt the need to look away. I was fearful to exist within something so powerful, but I moved closer and felt the electric charge go through me as if it were a ghost.

And as quickly as it appeared, the light was gone. My heart broke inside my chest, and I heaved and fell to my knees. The tears were as acid on my face. Just as I prepared myself for a life of darkness, the Goddess of light appeared before me and touched my face with a glowing hand. She spoke words that I could only hear within my heart.

“All will be revealed, in time.”