Shivering in the cold, begging for escape;
My death has been arranged, and life has slipped away.
The hope that I once felt is hiding in the dark;
The prayers that I once held are frozen in my heart.
How can you ask me to sing a happy song?
You know not the pain I've endured for so long.
How can you ask me to look on the bright side?
My soul is lost in darkness, a starless night sky.
In here there's no care
for what's wrong and what's right
My spirit laid bare,
in here there's no light.
So I dance with the demons as they sing me to sleep,
And I wait for the angels to come rescue me.
Yet over and over, they fail to arrive,
And again I'm left wondering, Why even try?
But the pain is so great, the seclusion so final...
Wouldn't you hope for someone to rely on?
* * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Suddenly, I witness, at my soul's door
Something I never once noticed before.
A glimmer of light, so weak and so frail,
Finding it's way through a crack in this hell.
How can this be? I'd given up hope!
I'd just finished tying the noose in my rope!
But surely, I see it, a light drawing near,
Chasing away all the darkness I fear.
The cup of my spirit was emptied before,
But now it is filled with the light at the door.
How did this happen? What brought this on?
Where is the darkness now stolen by dawn?