Challenging the Darkness

In the darkness, I lay awake.

I look around.

Shadows creeping everywhere.

I look out the window;

At the silvery grey skies.

The moon hanging pale.

I see the stars;

Barely twinkling.

As if in dying breaths,

Trying to warn me...

I don't want to surrender;

To lay waste that hint of courage.

I stand and walk around

As if, challenging the darkness.

I hold no fear now;

And then I kneel and pray.

Like a soldier on a battlefield,

With the countenance of a saint.

Knowing,

That no matter what,

God will make a way.

The break of dawn on the horizon,

Makes way for no more doubt.

Deep inside I believe,

That the battle has been won;

I see the glimmer of sunlight

And then I say, Amen.