When life is dark

When life is dark

Where do you go to feel the light again?

Surely there is a place

Where a flame is still burning

Deep down in our soul

If we just don’t agree to be the willing accomplices

To the dimming of that spark

But there are times too

When a dark storm

Obliterates all that was bright

We stand oh so solitary and all alone

As wild winds all about us rage

And everything is thrown about

Helter Skelter

And for some of us there is no way to find shelter

And so we are hit by flying debris

And lots of shame

For not ever having had a place

To call home

That could protect us from the wind and rain

Why is it that we so often blame ourselves

When these wild winds blow

And for our lack of protection or direction

When we were never really ever helped

To find the guiding light

That is all covered over

But still burning somewhere

However dimly still alight