Sanity

Dawn brings in its good cheer, fragrant with such hope and faith
expectant with dreams fulfilled, and desires to be met,
Yet we the weak in spirit slumber,
afraid of the dark, we stayed up
afraid of the light, we slept in
Banking on imaginary monsters,
Of century old myths, we awaited doom.
We cursed the good, embracing what evils we knew
In the purest of forms , we succumbed

The virtual darkness engulfs, so thick
a trial so vein, of wicks
the pleas made silently turn to screams
hidden emotions begin to show,
tears, blood, sweat, name it
Shackles of the past tighten
the little we had left, we took by the hand,
fighting to the death, fighting for sanity
rights we had long forgotten,
rights we had long surrendered,
we  claimed.

The hold you had, gone
ensnares and traps placed, poof
chains and groaning, relief
locks and cables, opened
windows and doors, unhinged
weary hearts, lifted
of the past and present, accepted,
of the future, a mystery expected
a silent promise of better,whispered
as the skies opened up and the light shown

Bernice.