Hostage of ghosts

In the dark

So much is intensified

Due to lack of light

Thoughts circle and encircle the tormented soul

Who understands not its own confusion

And will never find liberation

Through thought alone

 

In the dark

Demons come to call

Unbidden

And there is the absence of the light to see

What grace there may be in a new day

When we can have the courage

To move forward from our prison of fear

 

So in the dark

I often ask for the light of God and truth

To shine upon my mind

Freeing me from shrunken corners

And darker thoughts

I ask for the wisdom to see rightly

And no longer be held hostage

By ghosts