Shattered Light

light

above

rains pure white

of tears’ true love

in joy and sorrow

filters through a prism

of rainbows for tomorrow

twists the way of dark expression

toward man-kind en masse humanity

defined by stained-glass images shattered

cracked on cold marble floors calamity

lost in shadow and gloom belief tattered

gone in the absence of color and light

life sucked to oblivion day or night

spirits overcome cry help make it right

shattered light exiled and no longer found

sparkle in the eye thing long forgotten

yet compassion stirs hush make no sound

hurls into hell’s hole all things rotten

dignity turns pride inside out

calls truth into existence

walls fall down with a shout

of bright resistance

then awaken

by the word

spoken

Lord