Come Sleep and wipe away from my sore eyes
Their worries, bring to me a dreamless slumber
To quiet what thoughts now march like thunder
From a tempest rushing across the skies.
Come help the spirit that helplessly tries
To close these lids, that wrenched asunder
Offer up anguish their easy plunder;
Upon your aid alone my hope relies.
A dreamless sleep and peace for an anxious soul:
I pray for this, and thankful would I be
To slip into your realm, to give control
To any who might numb this memory!
But only thunder comes, so restlessly I stir
This eternal night, and think of him with her.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Follow the Light (2010)
No matter how the darkness breeds,
No matter visions dim and bleak,
Follow the light wherever it leads.
Upon despair and fear it feeds
And waxes while it makes us weak –
No matter how the darkness breeds
The more it does the more it needs
And ever more must ever seek,
So follow the light wherever it leads.
Its gleam is pregnant with the seeds
Of words that we must someday speak,
No matter how the darkness breeds;
Such words have power, like the creeds
Proclaimed of old from mountain peak,
So follow the light wherever it leads.
Follow: though the body bleeds,
The spirit knows what it must seek;
No matter how the darkness breeds
Follow the light wherever it leads.
No matter visions dim and bleak,
Follow the light wherever it leads.
Upon despair and fear it feeds
And waxes while it makes us weak –
No matter how the darkness breeds
The more it does the more it needs
And ever more must ever seek,
So follow the light wherever it leads.
Its gleam is pregnant with the seeds
Of words that we must someday speak,
No matter how the darkness breeds;
Such words have power, like the creeds
Proclaimed of old from mountain peak,
So follow the light wherever it leads.
Follow: though the body bleeds,
The spirit knows what it must seek;
No matter how the darkness breeds
Follow the light wherever it leads.
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