When I start to hear words for people - it usually starts with just a few. The lantern is a protector of the light it carries. Symbolically - I feel like it's you who is a protector of one's light... feel like these words are a reflection of your strength and compassion - and it's how I see you.
Amy Dustin Way
The Lantern Of Light
by Amy Dustin Way
She walks with a lantern
Of light
That shines
So brightly
It interrupts
Darkness
With its vast
Reach
She searches for
People
Stuck in darkness
For she knows the
Path out
She’s walked through
Sorrow
She’s walked through
Lies
She’s walked through
Abuse
All the while
Marking the path
For her to return
One day
With her lantern
Of light
To search for those
Not able to
She walks with a lantern
Of light
That shines
So brightly
It interrupts
Darkness
With its vast
Reach
She searches for
People
Stuck in darkness
For she knows the
Path out
She’s walked through
Sorrow
She’s walked through
Lies
She’s walked through
Abuse
All the while
Marking the path
For her to return
One day
With her lantern
Of light
To search for those
Not able to get out
To search for those
Who cannot see
To search for those
Who cannot feel
And the day
Arrives
When her heart
Forgives
And she starts to walk
Back on that path
But this time
She knows it
She’s marked it
It does not scare her
For she does not
Walk alone
She walks with
An army of souls
Marching in unison
To the direction of her
Footsteps
For she shines her
Lantern of light
Searching for people
Left in darkness
And she finds them
It is her words
And her experiences
That surround
And comfort
Those who are
Hurting
They may not take
Any hand that offers
But they will take hers
For they see her
Lantern of light
And know that
In order to hold such light
One must know such darkness
And so they follow her
On the path
In the light
The lantern of light
That she shines
Towards
The path to forgiveness
The path to freedom
All the while
Holding her hand
That she reaches back
To let them know
God did not
Abandon them
For he sent
Her
The one with the lantern
Of light.