Sunlight and Shadows

Finding poetry in star dust, sunbeams, and passing clouds

Category: Faith

  • Life

    The letter I wrote to a world that didn’t write back

    The light I found that only led me to a crack

    The call I made to a phone that was off the hook

    The dreams I dreamed that only happen in a book

    A stormy life of springtime joys and winter pain

    A treacherous life of highs to fall back down again

    A hard life that takes great faith to believe

    A weary life of small victories you achieve

    Broken tears of soul-searching depths of pain

    Bitter tears of disappointment, let down again

    Shameful tears of empty hope you once believed

    Weary tears of painstaking, tenuous gains achieved

    Treasure this great, fragile life that is ours

    For only in darkness can you see the stars

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  • Paths to Keep

    The woods are dark and lone and deep

    The path so long that we must keep

    The tangled vines weave webs below

    The thorny stems and branches grow

    The thickets shut out light up high

    The ravens in the distance cry

    The darkness grows at every turn

    The vining leaves with poison burn

    The only choice is forward go

    Through woods so deep and dark and low

    The woods are not so dark and deep

    If only to the path we keep

    The vines protect the earth below

    Berries and fruits on branches grow

    Our eyes adjust to light up high

    Our ears hear ravens call not cry

    Our courage grows with every turn

    And in the distance now lights burn

    Because we chose to forward go

    Through woods so deep and dark and low

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  • Promise

    Rock, road, yours alone

    Up against the wall

    Hard place, go through it

    Never stop on your dreams

    The hand that opens doors

    Your eyes, when I fly

    Truth, lost, more to say

    So dark can’t shine, be found

    Shadows only reflect the sun

    Open up to the light

    Quietly waiting to grow

    Promise alight, new dawn

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  • Small Victories

    Not all races that you win

    Have cheers and fanfare at the end

    Not all mountaintops you climb

    Will immortalize you in time

    Not all planes you learn to fly

    Can write your name across the sky

    Not all stories that you write

    Will be best sellers overnight

    For sometimes you’re the only one

    Who knew the race had to be run

    And it looked easy to the top

    To those who couldn’t see the drop

    Some planes weren’t even built til you

    Had to construct them while you flew

    And sometimes stories must be told

    Of life on the less traveled road

    So climb your mountain, run your race

    Don’t worry over time or place

    For each small victory’s one more stone

    To build a life you call your own

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  • Tunnel

    I stand on the edge looking down in

    So dark, so deep, nowhere to begin

    I step back away, I’d rather just hide

    Than have to go on to the unknown inside

    I could turn my back and just stay here

    It’s nothing exciting, but nothing to fear

    But I take the first step down into the dark

    Feeling for a rung, a ladder, a mark

    I stumble at first, I slip and I stall

    But I know if I keep holding on, I won’t fall

    I find my footing – now I can see

    What all the darkness was hiding from me

    For you have to step into the darkness before

    Your eyes can adjust to see the next door

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