I AM by Carole Hatch

This is a poem by new member Carole Hatch......
.....about a voyage of discovery or enlightenment



I Am


Black the silent sorrows,
the heavy cloak of care,
holds the dark world captive
unmoving, ties it there.

Tired, heart despairing,
lost in emdless night.
Resigned to ever failing,
has given up the fight.

The fluttering of frantic wings
that beat towards the sky.
the howling of a hundred winds
that cause the leaves to fly.

the panic flight of hunted things
that flee from suns first light.
the thought that looks the world about
and seeks a foe to fight.

Confusion, undecided
turning this way and that.
running in a circle
who knows to which from what.

Morings first light,
the dawn of understanding
clear and unshadowed life,
peacefull; undemanding.

Still, so still the soul.
how clear the brilliant certainty.
the hear, the now, the moment.
to reachout and touch eternity.

No more the shadows clad in robes,
for kings to praise or beggars damn,
will dim the light that gives me heart
at last to say - I Am.