Through A Dark Fog

There are those among us
from whom goodness and decency
and the swell of optimism
radiates throughout life, these
people whose greetings and smiles
affect all those with whom they
share breath on this planet.  They
represent the marvel of witnessing
shooting stars lighting up the
heavens however briefly, casting
light and shared emotions of
faith in the future, theirs and ours.


As their luminous presence
illuminates ours in communicating 
a bond between souls, their more
numerous alternates in characteristic
gloom glower through endless days
of distrust, anger and rejection,
casting about them the dampening
soul-destroying pall of misery 
at their lot in life and life in general,
teetering on the abyss of the
subconscious malignancy of hatred.