The Redemption of Today - A Poem

The sky came down and the Earth went falling
Down the abyss where cyclopses, walled in
Escaped with the darkest of souls in the depths of The Pit
Wound round the nine circles to battle mankind with
All of the hatred we had spouted, they had been saving
Winding our anger, a line for their angling
We were caught in the hook and the whole of us dangling
They pointed and laughed and in the great mangling
A bright young face stood and said with a scream,
Life doesn't just end with the death of a dream.

One day ends in horror, another in lies
And we just look up, shake it off, sigh,
Maybe this will be the sunrise where our nightmare sets
Where we are left alone to set right what's left.
But the days cascade and build from the next
And when we sweep aside life, our energy's spent
Avoiding the world we were once meant to conquer
We drudge to close doors and forget that what's offered
Is the promise inside of each of our striving
The guide of our minds is our soul that's deriving
The traumas and costs of our times into feeling
And how minds harness the meaning determines their ceilings.

Life doesn't just end with the death of a dream
There's more to a stitch than a rip in the seam
Backtrack and attach a new yarn to old thread
You'll never find a truth in a world of dead ends
When your ends are covered in the truth of the promise
That all of us are capable of pulling from in us
Our pasts into present, filtered by drive,
The wisdom we gather when we are alive
When we fall, and we rise, then we set like the sun,
We may hide from our gifts, but the light is still on.