"Love's Light in an Overwhelming Darkness"


I am only half alive
And that half lives only in secret
I am the slave of my own feelings
which change by the second
If love be darkness
I float alone at the bottom of an ocean of it
If her smile be compared to a star
then it is the brightest in the night sky
Its cleansing rays reach even me
the lonely heart of the ocean floor
Her pale white hand reaches down into the depths to pull me from the gloom
I reach for it but am stopped by my worst fear
for the creation rarely wishes to be separated from its creator
I push it away; no longer wishing to be its keeper
for I am now called by the promise of her light
I take the hand of my salvation
its feeling indescribable for I have imagined it feeling so many different ways
and am born to the unexplored surface


-Jarred Lee