Darkness Made Light

Some may say Look on the bright side Life is not all doom and gloom There is beauty to be seen and appreciated I appreciate all the beauties of this life Yet there is a call in me To examine the horrors The dark places where men’s minds do not care to wander If one can shine a light on the dark If the hidden and unspeakable Are seen and spoken Then can they not become beautiful in their darkness? If the sorrows and horrors of the world Can come raging from my soul And spill on to the page Arranged in words both beautiful and true Then sorrow has become beauty Dark horror has become light And they no longer belong to the dark But are held, softly and reverently in the palm of my hand I will not let them fall