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Everything Happens for a Reason
Why drift I here in dark abyss?
With no motion, thought or feeling.
Lacking sense of time or space,
Finding neither floor nor ceiling.
Now that void is broken by
Intermittent lights so bright.
Showing me what seems the way;
Giving me the will to fight.
Surrender seems so easy here
To let the darkness take me down.
But then a voice so very clear
From an Angel in a tiny gown.
"Why?" I asked, in fear and dread.
"Will all be clear within due season?"
Answering, the Angel said:
"All things happen for a reason."
And so I woke; took up the fight
As sight first blurry then aligned
Then buzzers beeping, and blinking lights
Stole the solace from my mind.
But that fight was to regain
Against all enmity and strife
From me, what was nearly ta'en
My family, my love, my life.
Then the Angel gave a sigh
As a tear rolled down her face
Looking into mommy's eye
Hugged me with a sweet embrace.
My life's bright flame had near gone out
Till reaching into my deepest pit
My Angel's soul had found that spark
With which my spirit she relit.
And, through her love I surely knew
As she turned me round full season.
Despite the darkness I'd been through
Everything happens for a reason.
R.F.Hamlett Sr. 11/23/09
