The Darkness
In the eerie darkness I reside
A shadowy corner is where I hide
Trapped in a cage I can not escape
Surrounded by a fear that is so great Wallowing here in my isolation
Seeking a way to be free with desperation
I cover my sorrow stricken face
Bound for certain doom
Crying out in despair
I see no means of escape anywhere
Because when I peek out from my pit of shame Only darkness whispers my name
It’s choking hold has grasped my throat
It’s poisonous air fills my lungs
Suffocating me there is nowhere to go
So I stay curled in a ball
Pressing up against the wall
Of the cage I allowed to be built
That I fear is too strong to break
For my hope is only a passing thought
And my life is the darkness’ to take
But in the darkness where I reside
A light shines into my eyes
A light so bright and so clear
It stuns me as I peer
A light that casts away the clouds
A light that finds me hiding here
But I linger in my corner
Even as the light beckons me
For it knows not of what I have done
Or of the darkness that I have become
I wait for a rejection as I feel the light searching my heart Seeing my thoughts and ways
And the evil that engulfed me for countless days
Just when I think the light will disappear
A voice shatters my walls saying
“Darkness is no longer welcome here.”
And in a moment the shadows that once surrounded me flee And I watched the fog that swallowed me leave
The cage caves leaving only a pile of pieces turned to ashes Evidence of someone I no longer have to be
I look up at the light that drove my darkness away
I see a face beaming down
A hand reaching for mine
Pulling me into two open arms
As a voice speaks over me
“My child, you are lost no more. I have brought you home.”
I look back at the dark corner that used to haunt my nights
I survey the room that bound me in chains I never tried to fight The world I created that now crumbled at my feet
And I feel sorrowful for the things I did
And shame for the life I lived
But the arms hold me tight
But I hear the voice reminding me
“You are forgiven, redeemed, and loved”
And suddenly the darkness stops calling my name
I feel clean
I turn and run through my pile of ashes
Scattering the pieces as far as the eye can see
Now knowing I am finally freed
Believing the darkness has no grip on me
For when a light shines
The darkness has to flee
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