Transformation

I open my eyes and all is black,

My life has known nothing but lack,

Everything I’ve tried to achieve,

Seems to amplify all my needs.

It is so dark I cannot see,

Black, I wish you would leave me,

You strangle and you suffocate,

Tell me that this is not my fate.

I ask for help to change my plight,

Because I can’t continue this fight,

And through the dark I see a light,

The essence of the color, white.

You’re so bright and filled with love,

Like gentle cooing of a dove,

In your presence I start to mend,

I’m thankful that I’m whole again.

Leah Frank