Dark Place

Dark Place


I am a dark place
where God is my light?
no gleaming brilliance lights my feet
and punishment from all I take
missing one-third of my destiny's call
in a dark place my own I fall.
In a dark place where I am small
dwell the memories that are my tormented hell
once I thought my life was going so well
now, in dark places i dwell,
now in dark places
I construct my mirror image
drawing a breath to scream my escape
but is it too late?
where is my light, O God, where is light?
in this darkness so fell my own
the darkness my church my home.


-Apr 19/01