New Beginning

Waking from an endless summer I stand

ready to move, to create, to live, to replace.

Waking from the eternal slumber I grin

ready to embrace, to take, to give for fate.

Years have trickled without a sound

Years have gone and I wonder how

Years have wasted without count

'til I woke to see them now:

years of suppression

years of fear

years of anger

years of tears

years of affliction

years of pain

years of love

gone away.

The summer sets into the night

I wake again by morning light.

Grumbling, shaking, I open eyes

step into the wronger right,

reach out my hands to take hold

reach out to God as knees fold

rise again to a world spinning

rise to face my new beginning.