Gathering

Here now

On a warm summer night

Watching in the distance

A bright sliver of moon

Smiling with a sideways grin

I think that just maybe new life is calling

And I sense also

A gathering of souls

Just all so alike

Who have known such a dark night

And voyaged such a long way

In silent suffering

In my minds eye

I see a thousand hands reaching towards

A new way of life

I feel that the despair we all navigated

Was nothing but the voice of awakening

Calling us away from death and sleep

And asking us all to acknowledge

A suffering

That we bore for generations past

Who could not cry those silent tears

Bequeathed to us by fate

And so now

Let us become

A participant in this new gathering

Let the dark that gave birth to us

Help us fight and speak for the light

And allow ourselves no longer to remain

Prisoners

Of the collective dark night