Walking The Shadows

You put me under your spell

Everytime I look into your eyes

My heart begins to race

Running a marathon

My knees grow weak

Making it impossible to run

I begin to feel faint

You take me in your arms

You are always there

Keeping me from harm

Taking such good care of me

In this time of need

With all our work

And will all the prayers

We are bound to succeed

We have been walking

Through the shadows

For so long now

I am not sure what the light feels like

Sunshine on my face

While taking a short walk

Or sitting on the porch

Watching birds flock

It seems time was nailed shut

As if hidden behind a door

Refusing to tick for me

Making me suffer all the more

A never-ending illness

With never-ending treatment

Round and round

Never to end

I close my eyes and pretend

But then the bad dream starts

Terror jolting me awake

Pretending is a mistake

When my life is at stake

Fighting is as tiring

If not more than the disease

I’ve become so weak

I do not even recognize me

One day the shadows will turn to gray

Slowly blowing me away

The wind taking over

Bringing in a another day

I will heal in the sun

While prayers and songs

Are chanted and drifting

Along with the gray

Higher and higher

Knitting a day

Before every sunrise

Darkness must fall

Sometimes long black

Stormy nights

Thunder with electric might

Cold and bitter

Ice cold night

A storm without end

A body without fright

I am still in line

Waiting for my day to come

I wonder as the darkness

Grips tight with pain

When oh when

Will my eyes

No longer rain?

When oh when

Will the dark go to gray?

When of when

Will the gray

Knit a new day?

That is when

The pain goes away

That is when

My eyes wont rain

That is when

We can be happy again

That is when

Time rolls in with the tide

That is when

We know

I will not

Die

Renee Robinson