BERNARD: A bright light
Poet reflects on how sunshine hits differently when spring sets in after a long winter
This piece was born in the early days of spring — that brief, trembling moment when the world begins to warm again, and the light returns with that familiar autumn glow that your body never forgets.
After months of cold, the sun arrives differently. It doesn’t just shine; it restores. It reminds.
As the season shifted, I found myself thinking about the bright lights in my own life — the people whose presence has steadied me, lifted me, or stirred something in me that I thought had gone quiet. Some are here now. All of them remain part of my inner weather.
Spring has a way of making you notice what’s been carrying you through the darker months. It asks you to pay attention to the warmth that returns, and to the warmth that never left.
This poem is my reflection on that — on the quiet radiance we offer one another, often without knowing it, and on the small, human ways we keep each other from going cold.
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