John 1:5

You may notice the 2-year gap between this and my last poem. I went an entire year, 1995, w/o writing a single poem, and only wrote 4 in 1996. This was during a rough time in my life. I didn’t do much of any kind of writing (including any novels). Often a broken heart makes for some great and profound writing, but my heart was too angry and bitter to produce much at that time. Thank God I made it through to the other side.

John 1:5 1997 (age 25)
The darkness may not understand the Light,
But the Light desires to break through,
Piercing the heart of mockery;
Even if just a crack of Light makes way,
Perhaps a change will occur,
Or perhaps the confusion of the Light in the dark
Will make the blackness much colder,
And the Light will be forced out even more so,
For not understanding why the Light strives to overcome the dark
Brings about a misdirected anger,
Grasping to understand, but remaining confused;
Not understanding the war within,
Struggling to break free from the suffocating darkness,
But not yet willing;
For if the dark has never experienced a cleansing heat,
The intrusion it feels wants to annihilate the Light,
And never again be forced to look at things through bright eyes;
But the Light will come again,
For it will forever exist,
And it will not cease to attempt to penetrate the dark,
For the Light never loses strength, and sends fear into the dark’s soul,
So that the dark will never forget that the Light was there,
And the memory of the warmth will remain

“And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.” – John 1:5