DARK--Where is the Light?

Dark

Where is the Light?

What happens when the brightness

Is shattered by darkness and death?

How do we ever find the light;

Where is the light when all seems black?

Dark

Grief is like a wall of fog

Sometimes paper thin;

Sometimes thick as concrete.

But always surrounding us

Until only fog is seen.

Dark

The grief of darkness

Comes over us like a shroud.

It wraps itself around us,

And fills in all the holes

Until we cannot see beyond the dark

Dark

Why so many deaths?

One by one my siblings die.

It does not seem to matter

At what age death takes a life

Nor what the circumstances.

Dark

A brother taken far too young.

 Another sister gone;

A favoured brother made the 100 mark.

But now the twelve are down to two;

How can I face these many deaths?

Dark

All around the kiss of death,

A family member’s niece at only thirty-one

But now a four-year old?

No words express the foggy grief;

A crying hug is all that we can feel.

Dark

The clouds keep rolling,

Dark and ominous.

Until we are at a loss—

But suddenly a crack appears

The clouds let in some light.

Hope

Hope, then despair, as the crack disappears.

Will it ever return with light?

Grief and joy entwined this day.

Death and life fill each moment.

And still the crack keeps out the light.

Hope

Confused yet enlightened.

Surely the light must come—

Another crack that broadens

As the separating clouds slowly

Give way to brilliant sun.

Light

Praise God, the crack has opened up,

Will the dark finally disappear?

And will the sunlight come streaming in?

 We have waited so very long,

But finally there is light within our souls.

Light

We finally see light and hope,

We dare to think the clouds of gloom are gone;

As we have suffered in darkness and grief,

So we will find that joy comes in the morning.

And with the light comes joy and peace.