Sunlight breaks

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a cold bitter wind

     with stinging drops of rain

bits of bitter cold

     blowing into my frozen face

 

slowly my steps go

     up the hill of man-made stone

my warmth is torn from me

     by the coldness of the world

 

steel gray clouds race overhead

     fleeing upon the wind

hiding warmth of the sun

     all lies frozen about me

 

crystals of ice with cutting pain

     now blow into my face

and the wind more bitter now

     does cut me to the bone

 

dry brown leaves skitter by

     with the sound of tiny claws

borne quickly upon the wind

     their life all stolen away

 

dirty snow in shadows lie

     about clumps of brown grass

scattered across the land so wide

     where my path does lie

 

my steps do slowly drag

     to the summits peak

where my weary eyes gazed down

     to the long road that before me lies

 

the way twists back and forth

     no straight path is for me

slowly across frozen land I must go

     seeking where I would be

 

before me does the land fade away

     under frigid gray clouds

that the road I pass upon

     continues on below

 

in the distance I can see

     bright light spearing through the sky

upon the mountain peaks so high

     rising over cloud shrouded land

 

I do quake in the journey's length

     the many steps so very long

if I'm to reach the patch of light

     I see so very far away

 

weariness does leech my strength

     fatigue does weigh upon my frame

hope does fade with each weary step

     taken on this gray day

 

would that one could simply stop

     this journey then set aside

another path there be to take

     to another place to be

 

yet does light before me shine

     upon the mountain peaks so high

though they lie so very far away

     on the path that I cannot see

 

 

 

 

 

 

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