Hear me oh darkness!
Let me wallow in your sow's mire
of doubt and discontent.
Let me languish in this litany of sad lament,
the angst of fearsome freedoms
I have yet to taste,
of perilous pathways to leisure
I have yet to make.

Let me smear this dark decay
over any window shining clear,
seal fast all open portals  
to well-wishes and their cheers.
Let all be dark!
that peering eyes may witness not
this comic visage of my fears.

Ah, but there be the luxury,
if there be only time to loll about in this,
my egregious plight.

But no!
What is this intruder, this theiving nuisance
but the mid-morning sun rousing me
in shameless glory,
throwing at my feet, gems of blinding possibilities...
beckoning a waltz into light.

And so...I will dance.
In these diamond soled slippers
I will dance,
for he cannot be denied.