RAISED FROM THE RELIEF

Invisible

and blind

to his surrounding

climate,

the pallid

spook of a man

one day

lurches forth

from a blizzard

he’s been in

and has worn

like a winter’s hibernation 

all his

somnambulant life.

Privilege.

Advantage.

Raised from this relief,

like a dead man

from a crypt,

awake and more alive

than ever before,

he now sees

his own whiteness

as an oblivion

he must make peace with

and never return to again.