Light Within

My rage flourishing into spite

No one can do anything right.

An obscene gesture here and a curse word there

More meanness in me than my own heart can bear.

What good is this dreadful world anyway?

Don’t want to wake up to another day.

Reaching the bottom of a vast, dark pit

All alone, here I sit.

The hustle and bustle of people all around,

But not one clear face and not one sound.

Even in the mirror, I cannot see

What’s deep inside, the real, true me.

There are feelings in there…

Somewhere

The little girl that used to play

And dance and sing her day away

Now just an empty shell

Drifting along in a living hell.

Where now do I go?

Just let the anger flow.

A mother, a wife, why can’t I see

All the love that’s surrounding me?

Then one day a Light appeared

Deep inside and took my fear.

He showed me how to love

Thank you my Father up above

For lifting me out of that deadly strife

And giving to me a brand new life

With purpose and joy, a peace complete

Knowing my troubles, even the least

Are miraculously taken away

As I get on my knees and pray.

I ask Him to forgive,

In return He shows me how to live.

Just love Him completely with all my heart and soul.

It was He that I needed to make me whole.

Nothing on this earth can ever compare

To the sea of love that I find there

In God’s wonderfully loving arms.

He keeps me from any harm.

He guides my footsteps, to where? I do not know.

I must drop everything and go

My Creator, Redeemer, He’s taken my sin

No longer a part of this world I live in.

All because of my loving Jesus

I now know that He never leaves us.

If you’re in that vast dark hole

Having no other place to go.

Look up my friend and you’ll find comfort there

In the strong arms of our Savior where there is no despair

Sabrina Jeanise

November, 1999