DESPAIR

by Susan Handle Terbay

As I descended down into the pit

I watched the light slowly fade away.

The opening became the size of a pinhole

There was no longer day.

Frightened, alone and cold

I screamed and no one came.

Desperate, pleading and naked

I listened, but no one called my name.

Sitting in that dampened well

I gave in to my greatest fear

For I was totally alone

And felt even God was nowhere near.

While the walls were closing in around me

As I sat in that darkened pit

I imagined this world without me

Tired and exhausted, I just wanted to quit.

But the God that created my being

The spirit within my soul

Softly whispered to me

In that blackened forsaken hole

A warm light filled my darkness

And I drifted towards the top.

At that very moment God bent down

And gently scooped me up.

As I looked around me

The light began to glow

For God and love had not forsaken me,

It was I who had let them go.

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