The Dark Night of the Soul
I would not care about you
If I didn’t feel your pain
I would have no need for company
But I can’t bear loneliness again
I would not need to find myself
If the world had been enough
And I would have known life’s meaning
But no-one fulfilled my love
I will not live for the moment
And take all that I can
For my treasure would be stolen
By those who scheme and plan
In my sacrifice and suffering
Was a better life for some
And I have left a better world
For the children that will come
As I gaze out from this lonely place
To the journey from my birth
I see the Love I left behind
Was the only thing of worth
Desire was never silenced
By gaining material things
And I never found the happiness
That Love’s fulfilment brings
I was never a part of the world we see,
I am just a passer by
Yet being who I AM my friend
I will come when I hear you cry
I don’t know who I am anymore
Or why I even exist
Is there any purpose to my life?
Is there something I have missed?
All that I’ve learned seems worthless
What’s left for me to find?
I see no promised pearl of Truth
Just a cold dark empty mind
Will life continue after death?
Is there more pain to bear?
Or will I close my eyes one day
And awareness be not there
If God exists I see no proof
For God was never in sight
And now my heart is broken
As my soul walks through the night
I have nothing left to cling to
And desire has gone to sleep
The reality of Self is all I have
It’s all that I can keep
Now as the darkness deepens
And nothing I become
I put down all I’ve carried
And stand alone as one
Love is all that I have left
The only part not broken
I will give it all without condition
Denying nothing it has spoken
Standing alone in this empty place
And in my darkest night
I find the proof that God exists,
As I step into the Light
The dark night of the soul©2008 HWHodgetts