Light.

Letting go
Is like coming home
To an unfamiliar place
Where I feel unwelcome
And the dust doesn’t settle
The clanging outside
Is deafening inside
Amplifying the noise
Muffling the truth
It just keeps getting louder
It’s so loud I can’t stand it
Yet I turn up the volume
And I can’t stop listening
Because the silence is
Even louder
It exposes the fears
The words I carry
The loneliness I hide
The deep wounds inside
Needing validation
Illumination
Consecration
Less condemnation
Freedom from guilt
Reparation
Because all that keeps me
From giving into the
Darkness
Is believing in
And walking into
The light.