November 7, 2018

This Road I’m On

standing here you can see it

that dark patch

back there

dark, foreboding and terrifying

it was

(they were)

yet from here

but a spot

(shadowy trail)

on the map

of where I’ve been

I try

but can’t

but vaguely recall

how I felt

back there

I remember the horrors

the hopelessness

the fear that tomorrow

would be taken

ere it could come

but those memories

have lost their power

their talons have no claws

they cannot do more

than give me joy

I see the sunshine

feel the sunlight

today

standing here

in this stretch of light

looking back I see the dark

(those darknesses)

where I wept

hear but an echo

of my lonely cries

desperate for help

any help

I was in the black

back there

a while ago

lost

in the endless bleak

buried

by that dreadful gloom

but today

today

I walk in light

today

I wear a smile

where this road may take me

tomorrow

whether sunlight or sadness

I’ll know when I arrive

but

today was

today happened

I will recall this day

this grand and glorious day

where life felt as it should

when I again need its light