Photo courtesy of Mark
REVELATION
Sometimes the truth remains in silence. The stories hidden, coiled up spring inside your soul.
To bridge the gap between old and new will become a forever trap.
I burn the bridge and meekly step onto the boat that drifts ahead.
It tosses, turns through stormy seas. I follow a tiny lantern, light flickers dimly,barely there.
It’s brightness grows on my approach.
My secrets of the forever past remain hidden inside my chest.
It bares the burden and cannot rest.
Letting go of shadows old?
Am I consoled?
Does anger not entice my bold revenge?
I can become in all consumed, destroyed and buried or I can seek another way.
I follow now a brighter path, not straight nor simple but it will last.
I stray. I wander here and there.I twist in circles still so aware.
But now I know the new that leads to sunlight glistening in the trees.
The chains I drag behind myself make shadows heavy, hearts of stone and blackened souls.
The wall is built, the difference great. I cannot pursue the bitter hate
If my future must be light, if freshened air must fill my lungs, a heart that’s full and clear in sight,
then I follow, move ahead not glance behind inside my head.
For me to grow the chains must go.
The visions eyes move forward straight as I approach the heaven’s gate.
The haunting I don’t think will end but maybe quieten,
threats devoid, just empty shells.
Each step I take I know I’ll find the pieces of me left behind.
To build a life that’s rich and full.
The chains shatter to the ground. I fly free – heaven bound.
My anger now is bitter- sweet. It makes me hate but so retreat.
To move away from that which kills to find a beauty that rather stills.
Those in the now they all abound, come down in overflowing love.
I seek it now that restful sleep. To let go my aching grief.
