Frederick Kwesi Great Agboletey

Glasgow, Scotland

Just Before Dawn

There is a gap in time between

Passing night and coming day

A forgotten slip of time when silence reigns

A slice of peace when even ghosts and ghouls tired of being lost

Find a place to retire

A time-less void of cessation

When lonely souls who have thought through long night are refreshed

A moment of deeply experienced relief and then,  it is past –

It is that time between what is intended and what will come to pass

Between innocence and regret

A pause in creation’s ceaseless activity

Just before things concealed are briefly revealed and then hidden again

A time of set between before and after, easily lost

There is such a moment of paucity when a sudden insight prevails

And pieces of disparate elements colligate and present an idea in perfection

Just a moment, and then it disperse again-

It is a precise moment of discernment or continuous oblivion

A sudden flash of awareness of a thing

barely seen yet once registered never forgotten

A glimpse into a gap between worlds revealing-