Hardship

Sometimes life is harsh

We find ourselves walking alone 

Through a stony landscape

From which all love and connection

Has removed

And there in the gloom 

Our heart contracts

With the tearing of a thousand things

Realisations of mistakes we made

When we could not see that far ahead

Along life’s twisted road

And then the storm comes

Bringing deluge

That makes a flood

Destroying the landscape again

As it becomes

Almost impossible to see that even here

Amidst the chaos

Seeds of new life grow

Invisibly in the silence

Buried deep below

As ghosts hovering in the shadows

Call our name

Awakening us from fervent dreams

Over long nights of despair

And we wonder how on earth

Everything broken

Will ever repair

Or if love and light and life

Will ever come into our lives again

And grant us redemption

From the burden

Of our heart break and despair