A Poem

In the morning when I wake
I see the light and praise the skies
In the evening when I fall
Into the sleep of knowing nothing will go too wrong
I praise Your name

In the daytime when I'm away
I don't praise anything but the time
The clock is my comfort
As it creeps away slowly
Waiting and walking closer to goodbye
In the wake of my sorrow
I forget all but hope
The hope that tomorrow won't be like today

I praise You in the darkness
And I turn away in the gray day
My fickle heart abounds in fears
Every moment that I wake
I'll breathe upon this earth and leave... what behind?
I ask myself the question
It is forever in my mind

Fear and hope, they linger on
In emptiness and grief
The world's soft face is apathy
Bound in a nameless, darkness
Sleep
I wish for peace and pray for courage
Nothing I do can compare
I'm loneliness and danger dreaming
Soft, waiting fragile dire and utterly bare

So don't give up when God or goodness
Fall away from these cursed lips
Into the dawn I will remember
To whom I own my ransom debt
In my heart there may be blackness
As in the hearts of all
But what right have I to claim the martyrdom?
Am I the only daughter left to fall?

Through the night I will still sing out
And call upon Your name
For hope still reigns somewhere in darkness
An ageless eerie strain
I cry tears of bitter bile gone
From day to day in muse
And all that I have left to hold
Is the power of You and all that you hold close