Ode to Life

Waves of desperation lap the shores

Rolling tides of thunder drown the silence

Dancing horses gallop in the shallows

Swirling depths reveal the hidden truth

Twenty years of pain ride out the storm

The dawn reveals its purpose for the day

Mist covers up the tracks of its confusion

Light breaks down the doors to hallowed halls

Opens up the shadows to the truth

Twenty years of love each day reborn

Forest branches swing in gay abandon

Encroaching down upon the paths within

Dark roads survive under the shining light

Reveal the journey taken to the truth

Twenty years of hurt that bind anew

Valleys green with envy wake renewed

Sustenance of man buds in its beginnings

Bursting forth with life in furrowed fields

Shoots dazzle in the sun point to the truth

Twenty years of joy since finding you

© Fergus Martin

May 2014