This 'vision' of awareness, <br />Identified with one's own mortality... <br />Awakens 'realities'! <br />And therefore, <br />We are less of conflict and more of purpose. <br />This begins the journey, <br />On paths that provide our answers. <br />Reflecting... <br />Against clouds of doubts, <br />Fading! <br />And speeds to us reason... <br />Why we must choose happiness, <br />Over the darkness of desperation! <br />Assisting those to climb and scale the heights, <br />Of dreams. <br />But choosing not to dwell with them, <br />In the shadows of valleys... <br />Resting in beliefs, <br />They have found their comfort. <br />Without the rays of the Sun to cast upon them!<br /><br />Lawrence S. Pertillar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/over-the-darkness-of-desperation/