Night’s Pardon

The darkness just bled away
like being sucked out of my heart,
for my hands found the candle
that shines its radiance
into that black hole
where I feel .

But I reached up
through all the ooze,
out of the ebony stew in sadness,
just feeling that euphoric blast
from having night’s pardon
to bless me with new life.

It’s a cleansing shimmer,
which now burns inside,
totally eradicating that sense of futility.

Now I can dream and see the sky,
walk with steps completely alive,
I am the renewed,
alive as never before.