Darkness to Light

The haunting melodic sound of  
A canticle sung
Notes 
Travel across the waves of air 
Stirring  memories
Permeating like water 
Drip through the soul
With the freshness 
Of youth 
Gone are the days of 
Choral song
Blown out like a match 
To years past
What freedoms lost
Amidst pursuit to contain? 
To survive in the darkness
We tread through the night
Incandescence is there 
For we’ve come this far 
But the journey is long
And we are paying the price
Like one once paid
On  a road to a cross.

Baleful are the sounds behind
Lamenting sorrows 
In anguish lie 
Spring Equinox
A seasonal change
The end of winter
Lengthened days
On this Goldilocks planet 
A cast off of sloth
Like leaves unfurled
Embracing the light.