IN MY TIME OF DARKNESS

In my time of darkness
In the shadow of the sun
When light itself is eclipsed
Through all creation

Each winding street is crowded
With frail fleeting forms  
Some in love with death itself
But fighting to be reborn 

Yet visions of mercy
In twilight’s flooding stream
Seem to echo every one
In eternity 

And in my time of darkness
In trouble unforeseen
The face of woe comes and goes
As if in a dream  

As the bell at midnight
In clamor tolls
The secret tears and phantom fears
Of each forsaken soul 

Yet visions of mercy
Like apparitions rise
Gleaming like a thousand suns
Before my opened eyes

Till in my time of darkness
From the ramparts I see
All souls lost casting off
The chains of history  

And the iron gate thrown open
Which ever barred the poor  
Stands before us broken
To close again no more