Identities:

A Prose Poem


By Jane Gilgun

The core of our identities is light and desire for light. All other identities radiate like
petals that grow from the core. The petals open to the light like arms. Clouds of
shame and doubt and responses to them threaten to block the light. The light from
outside breaks through to our core. The light from within breaks through to get to
the outside light. A two-way desire.

Think of fields of sunflowers. They move in response to the streams of the brightest
part of the light. We can tell the time of day by the position of sunflowers. Happy are
we who open to the light and move with it.