Will Be

Will Be

By May K.

Despair knocks, indeed it does

It seems to be right outside

Knocking, knocking, knocking

Desperate to get in on this night

It begs me so incessantly

Indeed I fear I might

In a moment of weakness or perhaps of madness

Give in to it and its fright

For it speaks in lies that don’t seem to be lies

It speaks only from what I see

Horrors, shadows, unthinkable things

That somehow have come to be

It is true that they have happened

Alas, it’s true they exist

So despair knocks and knocks and knocks

And whispers ‘do not resist’

But it is a lie. Truly! A lie

For since when was the future only what I see?

Even snow on a high mountain top

Shall one day reach the sea

And a seed buried deep in the dark earth

We know will one day grow strong in the sun

So how can the now, the now that I see

Tell me ‘Give up! It is done!’?

For sight lies, don’t you see? It lies

It continues only on straight paths

But life? Oh life is a miracle!

That at the trend merely laughs

For in life impossibles happen

Remember! You’ll know it’s true

Something that shouldn’t have been

As happened to me must have happened to you

So laugh with me! Come laugh!

In the joy of the miracles before

And when despair comes knocking, laugh again!

For where there was one miracle there will be more!

Living will be to walk by faith and not by sight

For only by faith can one truly see

And trust and hope and keep on believing

In the miracles that soon someday will be!

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