(NOTE: While much of my poetry is personal and uses personal pronouns, there is enough truth in them to recommend them to readers. I least I hope that is so.)
In the hollow of a heart
deadened by sin
Came a light that blinded
the night
And set the prisoner
in me free
Its brightest place
over my head
It shone all about me
making night the day
It comforted me and
gave me needed peace
Until my mind remade
the madness of despair
The source of my sin
took hold on me again
To run the test of fire
on my life and time
I sought the light
ever after that night
But could not find it
as it burned in mind
Until I came close at last
and I knew Jesus
My Lord more truly
than I had known him
He had been the light
all the time in me
In my heart,
and in my mind
NOTE: A poem for the author's novel The End of Night
Comments
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Well, "I's" are "me's" to readers...we always apply what is written to ourselves...no matter how hard we may try not to, so your poem is ours too...like it or not, lol.
Proof is this poem where many can understand that fire. And it doesn't even have to be the fire you mean...even those without faith know that fire...that moment of clarity, it may not be the same source, but for the individual it has the same intensity.
I am glad for you that you saw that light, that divine spirit.
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From the darkness to the light,
to the ultimate realization...
Ah, Jack, you have captured this moment...
and given a taste of what might be ahead
in your novel.
May the light keep shining...
Arty
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