Out of the darkness comes the light

Showing my path with glare so bright.

It holds my future and my past

For it was meant to help me last.

 

Shimmers and shines of a lonely glow

Can give me a needed ray of hope.

The answer to all my calls and prayers

Given with most compassionate care.

 

But even the light can be bittersweet.

A fabulously fashioned and fabricated feat

Can fall like a feather to the floor,

And drift away, be nothing more.

 

Here today, vanish in a flash,

Gone tomorrow, a pile of ash.

The nature of the lustrous gleam

Proves more complex than it seems.

 

Fire is fading, and I’m losing time.

The stygian shadows are malign.

The situation’s at loss of light,

Even hope can bring me deadly fright.

 

New glooms are created, black as coal.

Will this darkness just swallow me whole?

Grim shadows will form before my eyes,

For even Darkness comes from surviving Light.