Sis Ada's Light

Every Sabbath the shadow of your time Fleeing the cycling earth Comes this way again. The sublime Moment was the young reeking with mirth Calling for volunteers On their pick up MV program. Cheers Would go up for 100 years Coming forward to counsel my peers. There was the one song: Praise the Lord, I saw the light And you sang it again and again; flight Of memory to it, and I long To see you standing there again Dissolving my hunger for the refrain. I do not lament your rest The strength of faith is laughter vain As our carnal love in the pain Of the shriveling breast. It is the passing of my own time I suck from the sour void for each memory I chime. You are gone now, having left us When my boyhood had barely changed From being barefooted in the dust And I from so much is estranged Chasing the darkness to find the light Knowing that what glows in the dark Will glow to be seen, and glowing bright I can follow you to the celestial park With brimming fountains sparkling praise. You see the prints I left in the dust By the wind that blows the sands was razed But the light remain forever, I trust.