Poem: A Dark and Dreadful Night

The subtle breeze beckons to me

ushering me to move along

The dark night sky spreads like a sea

A sea of endless, long forgotten song

A song whose words

whose essence hidden

But message yet unblurred

From time's chisel, unforgiving

I see a star, yet come ablaze

shedding a light amongst the trail

a valley deep, comes at haste

my path soon to fail

This dark and dreadful night

though clawing, shredding closer

can not fortune to fight

amid the star's bright cover

I suddenly hear a rattle

-the patter of hurried feet

some unheard battle

pray, closer about to meet?

But no, with aw

amidst the darkness

no foe I saw

but a finger to lips pressed

"The night grows onward"

the stranger commanded

following him I dared

from darkness to be hid

Wearily we stumbled on

with radiant beam our guidance

Laughter I heard! Before long,

a peaceful quiet ambience

And to my dismay there was settled

the band of thieves, blades gleaming from the star

the strangers blade, outstretched, I pulled

plummeting steal and hilt and strength without a roar!

Mesmorized the assasin fell

my reaction to his dismay

then did I check to tell

if the camp of bandits were at bay

Still in the distance cheery

my seekers rejoiced, unawares

thoughts betraying my mind into worry

I quickly departed from my fears

And from that night so long ago

I humbly thank the light above

that revealed to me a coming roe

and blade, showing me of Thy Love!