Waiting
Shadows lengthen, the landscape dims,
and all that was my rising sun
is drifting out beyond the rim
of life's elusive horizon.
So many times my footsore soul
has traveled following that light,
pursuing the ever moving goal
that sinks into a sea of night.
Seething waves leap in the blackness;
their crashing drowns my feeble cry.
with hope deferred, Fear and Madness,
hard on my heels, snap evil lies.
I cannot voyage on alone;
no craft can weather such a sea!
I wait. I face the dark unknown
till God brings daybreak back to me.
Faye Lanham Gibson
Copyright, 1987
Copyright © Faye Gibson | Year Posted 2014
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