The beacon

The beacon of your love

Illuminates parts of me held in shadow

Reveals to me both my greatest longing and deepest fears

Shows me at times how I run

When my tender heart starts to skip a beat

When the hoping of a former innocence

Too quickly dashed upon the jagged edges of anxiety

During that spring

Again emerges

Reminding me of how the promise of love

Was torn away

Hope makes all of us vulnerable

Brings memories of the times

Solid ground

Disappeared to reveal a deep abyss

And that is remembered now

As events repeat again

But our trembling hearts must remember

The present is not always the same as the past

Even though it holds these echoes

And the beacon of love will reveal to us

Our deepest place of insecurity and fear

So we finally face it

Feeling the trembling of new life

As we stand once again cloes to that abyss

Of our former experience

And jump

Answering fear and terror

With faith and love