Light Will Be at the Last

I have felt desire thunder through the heart

To settle in the pit where passion lies

Known too Her love divine so pure, so wide,

All beauty in her kohl shaded eyes.

And then in this embodiment I saw

Her smile at me and all the world was changed

And when she spoke I knelt and gazed in awe,

My life remade, the past rearranged.

I looked at former lives across a shore

I could not cross, rivers I need not ford

And knew a joy never known before,

These moments in the presence of the Lord.

Yet none is free from taint by evil's touch

And darkness still in human hearts resides

In the mirror of my soul I see this much,

What is to be when all the gloom subsides.

I am convinced of the eternal good

But the horrors of the present and the past

Weigh heavily upon our brotherhood.

Still there is light and light will be at the last.