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5/10/2018 11:14:12 AM

Wendy Nipas
Posts: 38

Stillness
In places where we sometimes roam
For which or whatever reasons
Things can be beautiful or grim
It’s just like with the seasons
In places where it’s dark and cold
And lonely so you will
The eeriness of such a place
Will force you to be still
And stillness, as far as I know
Will do a soul no harm
But rather, as so many found
It works as an alarm
’Cause the stillness will confront you
It will put the truth on chart
It will air the musty places
And it will lay bare your heart
It helps you to see eye to eye
The things you found too scary
Or the things of which you should have been
A little bit more wary
But lack of will or want of heart
Has kept you dazed and captive
Although the state that you were in
Was dangerous and deceptive
So the darkness gives you ample chance
To mend and to restore
To come into the light resolved
To seek the dark no more.

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