by Nigel Ridehalgh

Created on: May 11, 2010

In the darkness of the day

it seems so hard to see the light;

to know what's wrong,

to care what's wrong

is such an uphill fight.

The muddy cloud of all that's there

is dark as any night;

how hard it is,

how pointless

to figure out what's right.

Does anything we do or don't

stand up to scrutiny?

We take that chance

we break that branch

on life's fast wilting tree.

it seems so hard to see the light

in the darkness of the day.

This entire race

has lost it's place

in the books that show the way.

Not the books once wrote

on skins of goats

or any other hide:

but the books that call

from in us all,

those books we've wrote inside.

It seems too hard to see the light

in the darkness of the day.

Certainly we've earned the right

to be forced to live this way.

In the darkness we must stay;

in the darkness of the day.

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