"The Chasm" a poem

The chasm

Nearly swallowed me

It was so dark

I could not see

My eyes were closed

My conscious shifted

I felt your presence

I nearly drifted

Into a cold and weary end

My heart was broken

It would not mend

But in the wind

I heard you say

“There is a gap

So I will stay

‘til you are ready

to leave this place

I’ll stand in this gap

And keep you safe.”

I felt alone

‘though alone I’m not

I could not make

The intense pain stop

Your hand extended

I could not see

Though it was

Right in front of me

I felt afraid

The hurt so deep

I could not eat

I could not sleep

Slowly began

To fall away

Into the gap

“Take me...” I pray

and then I saw a silhouette

Ahazy vision

Interrupts regret

This gentle light

I could not see

Begins to grow

Envelopes me

And from within

There is a feeling

Familiar but distant

It is a healing

So from the chasm

I turn to You

Feel Your embrace

Finally a breakthrough

Love’s never lost

But sometimes displaced

It leaves path

That can be retraced

The light now glowing

I clearly see

The arms of Love

…have set me free…

 ©Acuminous Watanabe