A Dark Shine

A Dark Shine

I glanced down, for suddenly, there in my eye

I caught a dark shine and it's this I did spy

A hair from sweet Luke, in my vest, it was captured

In the space of a heartbeat, suddenly time, it was fractured

I'm transported back to morning when we two ventured out

As we trotted and cantered and climbed all about

I felt the sun and the wind and the chill of the morning

Then the warmth of the work and the sweat it was forming

The peace and the pleasure that flows from Luke mule

It's more than can be measured, he's truly a jewel

                                                    Cynthia L. Ross