If you are sitting in darkness
open your eyes
turn around to see if there’s light behind you
or above
or below
or to the side
not that side, the other side
get up and look for some light
ask for some light
maybe you should have asked
right after you opened your eyes
if (like Jonah) you know where the switch is …
If you see someone sitting in darkness
for God’s sake, don’t wait to be asked to share some light
Published in Agape Review
Ethicist, online education entrepreneur, and pastor, Russell Willis emerged as a poet in 2019. Since then he has been profiled in THE POET Magazine and published in twenty-eight online and print journals (including the Ekstasis Review and As Above So Below) and seventeen anthologies. Russell grew up in and around Texas, was vocationally scattered throughout the Southwest and Great Plains for many years, and is now settled in Vermont with his wife, Dawn.