A Light In the Black
When ready I was to surrender,
unconditional, and to Death, no less,
then caught my rising head a lighter shade than dark.
An impossible phenomenon,
amongst these always gathering, ever-permeating devils.
The throng of suffocating blackness parted - You who would die too: Hark!
For there in the eternal night, flickered actual light!
Where no light belonged, it nonetheless existed.
Softly at first, then brighter still,
until I cried out, as joyfully my eyelids blistered!
An angel, surely, I first thought it to be,
but no! A mere man but blessed and cursed like me!
Smiling, but fighting the devils, like did I, once,
until no light, or breath in my chest, was left coming free.
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