Sweetness and Light

Just great... and I can relate to that, too. ;-)

Blessings and best wishes - S.

Excellent. The first step in walking the path is believing there is on. You sound like you are well on your way

Gorgeous, Samantha, and so beautifully written. It's that feeling of hope (also mixed with disbelief) when you see some light at the end of the tunnel. Thank you for sharing. I really enjoy your writing.

Glad to run with you, Samantha! Thanks. I'm reminded of Porgy & Bess where Porgy didn't care how FAR it was to New York, he just wanted to know in WHICH DIRECTION!

"I walk not in the valley
Now I am on the path"

Awesome.

Out of the valley, and onto The Tao (The Way). Bravo!

Hold hands with the sweetness and light, run and never look back - beautifully written, Samantha

I like the way you take the cadences of David´s Psalms, and the central concept of Matthew Arnold´s famous poem, and weave them together with your deeply felt suffering of a difficult experienc, and yet in the process show their is always a balance struck between the solitary path--¨I need help from no one¨--and the bargain reached for help that must finally be sought.

We are never alone, even inside our own psyches, but we have to pay a price to remain integrally ourselves--¨the ransom has been paid.¨Nice, acute lyric shifts in this terrifying trek from a forbidding valley to a path that leads through shadowy canopy into a suddden daylight ´freed from the skulking dark.¨

Careful word choice, psychodynamic threading through archetypal obstacles, anhd the will to find the succor one needs. A first rate poem about surviving fear and blackmail and coming out intact with dignity. My first read of yours, my lustrous Samantha, but certainly not my last.

For your feet need to fall on the golden path. Turn not left or right yet follow unto his door.

Well said Don !

I alawys like the way john, the master- mentor friend comments !!

Beautifully written poem to relate in life mundane of senses

- of ever-changing phenomena !!!

This really really Good. A ten for you:]

I think so many can relate to these words, because we all make the journey from darkness to light, though at various stages. Just watched the Dark Knight, so the words from the movie are still fresh: "Night is the darkness before the dawn. But I promise you -the dawn is coming." And it will, if we don't give up.