Dark clouds and shadows in the evening sky
Where you expected golden sun
It’s dark again with tonnes of tears to cry

Panic beats your heart, but you’re numb inside
Where warmth had lived before:
Curled arms, elbows pressed to your side

What bent head tear-filled pain hits your eyes?
What can closed eyes see?
Misery piling upon failed tries and woe’s sighs.

What can closed eyes see, if they turn upward
To where many have seen lots
And thereafter moved steadily forward?

Look to the wind blowing a crack through the gloom
And a single ray wriggle through
Letting a smile drawn in light appear in your room

The cold window warms up and takes up new hues
Your arms loose, eyes healing,
The warmth fills you inside as you take up a new you

For darkness was vanquished, and this you knew
But didn’t know-know so
End of day brings in light to you, and with faith renewed

You ponder what you had been told: “He’s with you!”
Not just for part of the pain
But through it all, till tears are dried and the smile is new

Like words floating through space to deeply embrace you
The clouds float away from darkness
And the pounding stops, the flowing tears are growing few

For nothing is so great as to prevail over His tender hug
And His promises are true
Nothing so heavy that following His lead you cannot lug

(c) nyonglema