Light and Darkness

Light and Darkness
Some walls taken, some battles won-
Some trophies lost, some races run;
And Darkness creeps in, as a robber thru the shadows,
As slowly fades the finished light.

The heavens are blazing with searing flames
The work of the heavenly smiths;
And though we know not their names-
Their anvil in the skies tells us they are no myths.

But when their glorious display is finished
Darkness falls over the face of the deep,
And it seems to all their joys are vanquished,
As all the earth gives way to sleep.

But why despair? For beyond that ghoulish night,
Past the facade of evil and woe-
There shines, in the distance, a light,
Defeated not, but once again aglow.

So, as in the cycle of Time on Earth,
The sun comes down, yet rises again-
As we should faint not when sin gives birth,
But trust still, in the Eternal Light and Hope of Men.