Notes from a Time Traveller by Elke Stevens

It’s a hero failure, hoping to hide like a ghost in the night, never wanting to be seen in the light.

But in a moment of no darkness all light shines and the hero can’t hide.

It’s a hero’s failure hoping to hide in the small world of the ghost while the world is big and turning.

Keeping distance, protecting himself from hurt, but water runs where nothing else goes.

It’s a hero’s failure, not wanting to be seen, not wanting to be hurt.

Where goes the mind of the hero, when he is not hiding in the dark?

But since he is a hero he will climb, he will step out of the dark, he will friend the ghost to step into the light.

©Elke T. B. Stevens 30/09/2018