Paradise Cove, Revisited

Suddenly, somehow, after years away, the song reappears in my playlist, an unassuming blessing of record label bureaucracy no doubt, of lapsed rights or purchased catalogs, perhaps it's all been dust in a drawer while I ached in silence, entitled millenial children habituated to receive all they could want at the flip of a wrist. And then here it was, like the tiniest gift, like a wink from the Universe; I listened to it on repeat and forgot for a moment where I was.

That's the thing about darkness, you know. All it takes is just one bright moment and all is forgotten. All it takes is someone looking your way like they see you, and you remember you are alive, again.