The Lamplighter

The Lamplighter 6/9/2014

How many thoughts

Have crossed my mind?

This and that

Here and there. 

I skip from place to place

In endless day dreams

Back and forth through time

People, places and things. 

My feelings vacillate

Like a raft in a stormy sea

Unsinkable

But always ankle deep.   

Temptations come

And there is warfare in my mind

A battlefield of emotions

That only prayer

And meditation can calm. 

But only the most evil of men

Would seek to control it

The will and spirit of others

Precious and inspiring

There is a darkness

That comes from forgetting

Like the shadow

Of the moon

Passing between the sun.

It is a place where the good suffer

And are sacrificed

By the power of evil men

To control and manipulate.

Fight against it

And dare to remember

What it meant to think freely

And express yourself

In vivid colors.  

Beware the darkness

Of subtle deception

And do not fall asleep

While thinking wide awake.

Evil never sleeps

And never lets a chance escape

But always twists the rope

Tighter and tighter. 

Fight the darkness

If not for yourself

Then for others

So that they be not a stranger

In their own house and home.  

The journey uphill awaits

No matter what deception arises

As we fling ourselves upwards

Against the grain.