A Light In the Darkness

Part I:

The sun falls
The tinder's set
The apples are passed
The honey on top

Rosh Hashanah begins
A symbol of a New Year
The End of the Old
The start of the New

The fire glistens
Burning the life now gone
The roots of the old are ashes
Never to be the same again

Shadows dance in the wind
Dancing ghosts of the past
I sit with my scout troop
Eating a forgotten repast

And in the warmth I feel her
Tender as before
I close my eyes and pray
Yearning for the nights of yore

The fire burns and burns away
Smoke on my face breaks my trance
The ashes of the past crumple
But the fire burns on,
And hope shines on



Part II:

The fire in the night
Consuming all the old
Darkness enshrouds
A near-lost soul

In search of something

The fire is the light
The friends are nearby
There is hope in the shadows
And laughter in the crackles

And yet there's something

Could it be the Singulair;
A depression artificial,
As the path from whence it came?
Or could it be me;
Missing the ashes of the old,
Or fearing that which devours them?

But there is something

I come down to the shore
With those that I call friends
The sun has gone down by now
But the river holds a shine

And it holds something

I shall leave
To quit the thinking,
To find some refuge;
Join the laughter,
Join the cheers,
And in THAT, find true light...

In hopes of something...
Hoping for something...