Where have you been

all of these days

when I needed you

I called out your name

yet the darkness that surrounded me

made it all in vain.

All I wanted was to know you were there

but that wretched darkness

crowded out my every care

captured my thinking

held me a prisoner within

yes I was depressed

if thats what your thinking.

Cracked up and useless

to myself and my kin

nothing but that darkness

always somewhere lurking.

I laughed at well wishes

in my head I would haste to say

its so easy for them

they are not travelling my way.

Then one day

like a shock that ran through and through

I saw my reflection

it was someone I never knew,

a pitiful man

like no life within

a face so torn up

I started sobbing.

Turned on the tap

of the hand basin

so no one would hear me

just me alone

in this place

kind of stuck with that reflection

drowning with my own.

Yet as I stood there

filled with despair

a shaft of sunlight

grazed through the window

as the curtain flickered

caught that mirror sharp

then caught my eye

removed my attention

took away all that darkness

it all departed into oblivion.

So when I called you

thought you were not there

I guess you were waiting

till at that reflection

caught my eye

till I took a long hard stare

then a deep sigh.

As I gazed at that reflection

the who I had become

it was then

when I had more than enough

you must of stepped in,

you banished the darkness

lifted the gloom

you heard me call your name

filled my life with something new.

Sunshine like a blessing

that simple

something so pure

I felt the warmth on my face

the cold of darkness

was no more.

Thank you.