Thank you, Author's Den friends, readers of my words, for your prayers, love and inspiration. I am forever grateful. :)

I stopped writing poems yesterday,
because there was nothing in my life
worth mentioning;
there was no happiness or beauty.
Everything was colored in deep shades
of depression,
and I couldn't figure out which way
lead out of this house of horrors I
found myself in.

But then I read your words; they came in
just when I needed them the most, and
they took me in,
never mind that I felt dirty and
was afraid some of my ugliness would
rub off on you ...
You enveloped me with love and prayers,
pointed me in the right direction,
and lead me out.

And everything is new again ... it's
like I've been magically transformed,
been born anew -
I see the world with new eyes, and
what's been revealed was always there, in
front of my face ...
and so, I must pick up the pen and
dance with the Northern Lights once more in
celebration.

(c) 2005, Karla Dorman.