Endless Night

There once was a night

So black and so cold

It seemed to know no end

A darkness that knew not when

Its time had come to go

 

Time passed so slowly

A generation without light

Children born without sight

What was wrong became what was right

All color took flight

In this endless night

 

Fear was sown and grew

An orchard planted by the dark

All forgot what once was true

Lost that which they knew

No struggle to fall apart

 

There came a fire which did not burn

A heart that could not, would not break

A burning quenched not by tears

And fed not by fear

It grew and burned for love’s sake

 

The night, swallowed up by heat

Clawed and screamed as it died

Pulled off its unwelcomed seat

Its work not near complete

Washed out by love’s riptide

 

There was an endless night

There is a burning light

There is a constant fight

The struggle never ends

What was may come again

Never cease to defend

To the death, love and life