Dark Path to Light.

Dark Path to Light.

 

Fear not that dark path

which leads to death

Fear not, and see a joy

in single breath

Fear not the path of faith

touch eternity

In the joy and sorrow of

each diurnity

Fear not the path of pain

born of madness

Brings to fruit sweet humility,

tender sadness

Fear not that darkest of paths

this earthly blight

That drinks the bitter dregs

the cup of light

 

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Notes:

This is built around the theme that there is no easy path in life, and to gain what is important cannot take easy shortcuts, but the hard path of darkness does lead to light at the end (in the cliche, the "light at the end of the tunnel"). There are I think some autobiographical elements drawn from people I knew at the time, but I can't remember what they are now.