Gino

Light over Death

Death,  

am I also your victor?  

 

Is the end  

a hindsight of things to come? 

 

Will the end  

bring an unconscious sleep?

  

Or shall I awake  

into an unceremonious depth? 

 

Or arise as victors  

from the ashes of our lives? 

 

Will our souls  

be redeemed  

from the travails  

of daily vice?  

 

Or shall  

we fancy our dress after the lies?  

 

Rising above  

cloud and void  

abounding in lonesome and blue,  

 

Heart grieves 

over a stalemate

at mourning\'s shore,  

as the tide  

rises to swallow  

the meaning of this life, 

 

Voice breaks  

as tears  

shed an uncertainty  

laid siege at dawn’s wake  

 

Lord, 

shield me  

from a plight of unrest, 

as a heavenly host 

of angels and song 

beckon 

with the arrival of prayer 

 

O Lord, 

guide my spirit 

over the ledge,

over a desolate

and wanton excess

 

Sun rising   

in beautiful  

spellbound hues  

shading an evening despair, 

as an emancipating glow  

cascades  

into the heartbreak of my soul  

 

O death,  

where is your sting?  

 

O hollow  

ends of the world  

bound in strife,  

when will you finally arrive? 

 

Breathing in 

that ceremony 

of peace and mind,

rest assured 

the end to all things 

is in his hands...