DARKNESS INTO LIGHT

After months what feels like the warming glow of a sunrise warming the bone-chilled body that has counted every second of the freezing night. Such a relief to feel the warmth and such a joy to relinquish the fight.

Like a sojourner in an arid place, wondering and dying of thirst. The oasis is in sight and not just a mirage of reflected light.

Grown so pale in the absence of the light, so lost wondering through the night. I all but thought the flame within had lost its glow like an abandoned cabin.

Such surrender to the morning light fades out the dreary midnight twilight. I can't help but sigh, knowing this won't be the last time. But for now, your warming glow reminds me I wasn't created for the night, I can only thrive in the light.

Oh, the melody of the morning robin as I rise from out of this coffin. As the Spring air awakens the sleeping bear, so dormant as the vine, I feel the ray of sunshine.

What darkness can hold me? After knowing of such liberty? My soul is free to live in eternity. My heart aglow after such sorrow. Once lost in the echoes of the mind, so overly defined, I almost forgot the sense of time.

The banner has been planted, the last stand may leave me stranded. But despite the enemies that surround me, my greatest foe is the one within me.

The regaining of sight once lost in the void of light. I see so clearly the path ahead, no longer to be misled. — WHR