Path to light

Shades pulled over my eyes to reveal the light,

counseled by painful thoughts unveiled.

Images of despair colored by tears,

life made known by the end.

What have I become in my sorrow,

a question my heart can’t seem to answer.

Lifeless hopes calling dreams to endure,

pleasures of the mind lost within my eyes.

To cry is more to me than caring,

a way I have regrettably misunderstood.

In darkness I weep for tomorrow,

in solitude I beg for today.

Seeing only with light enough to stumble,

pathway seen clearly my fall.

Misguided trust within my calling,

reasons to make my way back home.

I feel the touch of someone softly,

bracing my knees as I kneel.

Holding life in my hands,

finding destiny in few words.

To spend a lifetime together,

after all has been made clear to see.

My love is for your forever,

in this ring there is all that is me.

I have seen the pain that once made my heart,

all of the guilt that held me down.

In the arms of who you are to me,

my life is more than perfection somehow.

I have fallen away to find this light,

buried deep within the eyes of your soul.

Taking my way from the shadows,

to honor and cherish, to love and to hold.











Johnny Newell