Beg for the Light

Lyrics of Conviction

Apr 29, 2023

Hollow night. Where the ear is dead, and electric eyes won’t sleep. 
Reverberations. Pound and screech. Across the street. 
His evening concrete saw is tearing up that pretty ranch home. 
But I can’t see 
beyond my reach.

Fingers buzz, and ache. Stiffened under a flannel blanket. 
Protection from a harsh black breeze, 
Suffocation by the expectation of stillness. 
Because you must stay still, what else can you do, 
in the dark.

Where the nothing lights up the spirits of the forgotten. 
Or of the repressed. 
Demons scratching the insides of your resting brain, 
so you cannot rest. 
Sparking and stabbing. 
So you count minutes that you savagely buried. 
Enlightened 
at 3 am.

Behold. The man. The woman. The break
There is no escape, drenched in the darkness. 
Illusions of grandeur sparkle up in sunshine. 
Blank can’t claim answers, nor justice, nor solace 
Since blinded by sight, your sleep can’t be fooled. 
You fool. 
You see.

Precious treasures. Darkened shadows. 
Paralyzed, mute, unhearing, 
unknowing, unable, unstable
Gold and diamonds, carved by ashes. 
Crusted rusted ruby necklace, passed from generations. 
Collar and chain. Insatiable prisons. 
Inherit the nothings, post-weeping at midnight
The genesis
of everything.

Behold. The man. His hollow hand. 
His silent night. 
Space between the blood and the bone. 
The mother and child. 
The filth and breath. 

The empty
The slain
The pouring into darkness

The stripes 
and scourges
In the fullness of time 

Where hope pulled you under

Where nothing is left

Where you beg for the light

Darkness and light. Is one side good? Or evil? God’s Word uses dark and light images when speaking of Wisdom and His Son. Maybe darkness can reveal just as much as light. Maybe not.

REFLECT

on the Words that God first gave to us. Meditate on the Truth that has made any of our words mean anything…

Cindy Koch Writes

Beg for the Light

Lyrics of Conviction

REFLECT