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Before Life Begins

Come find me in the dark, before life begins

Where I stand tall and unafraid

Where I dwell frustrated yet elated

The darkness where I was born into

The darkness that I was meant for

The darkness where I come from

And where I am to emerge from...

The darkness you're keeping inside...

 

Come find me in the birthplace of raw ideas

Where we will spend ages shapeless, hovering 

Come find me in the dark

where Purpose is hidden somewhere..

Help me trace and uncover it!

Let's tread alongside each other.

Let's never lose each other.

Let's never get lost.

 

We only get lost

if we turn our back on the dark.

The dark will judge you only if you shun it...

Don't! Don't fear it!

The dark is not an evil place

The dark is mother of all

It is the womb that bears and gives birth 

It's the first and last page.

 

Come find me in the dark, before life begins

Moments before dawn.. 

Where you will come to life with me...

Come to life with me!

We shall brew novel notions

and weave words never heard or uttered before

Come find me where stories begin with the ending

and every end is a beginning 

 

Come find me in the dark

Where mystical secret meetings take place

Where drums and bugles come together 

With the voices of men and women 

You can hear them rehearsing

Preparing tirelessly for the big day!

When they will awaken us

with a sweet and fierce vociferous reveille.

 

Come find me in the wide uncertainty,

Join me in the terrifying anticipation

of that loud shocking bang...

Don't fret! It's only the starting gun!

And it will be shot,

and it will be glorious!

And we will get to live!

 

Come find me in the dark, 

In honest obscurity, bear it with me

Better be kind in the dark

Than be cruel under the spotlight.

Don't confuse the light with the spotlight!

In the dark humbly, silently we mold the promises

into the future!

And in the dark we and we alone make the molds.

 

Come find me in the dark, before life begins

Where we watch closely

Where we hearken and listen 

Where we sniff and taste and read

Where we think and feel

where we breathe in every single particle of beauty

and truth 

where we fervently keep notes.

and wait.

Come wait with me!

 

Come find me in the dark where wonders well

Believe in my dream..

my dream of living! 

Really living....not just breathing!

Hoist the dream and dream with me

The wind shall blow and we shall set sail 

Come find me in the dark, before life begins

and I promise we will be delivered to the light!

 

In the dark, before life begins

we are all

individuals in the making. Come!

 

In the dark where I wait for you 

our toils and works

will be miracles waiting to happen. Come!

◄ Biblical Joke

Us and Them ►

Comments

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Mae Foreman

Thu 30th May 2019 12:51

Couldn't have said it better myself dear Jason!
Thank you?
Mae

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Jason Bayliss

Wed 29th May 2019 23:24

A lovely exploration of the dark, the true dark, not the dark of the human soul, but the absence of light and the birthplace of all potential.

J. x

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