Despair knocks, indeed it does
It seems to be right outside
Knocking, knocking, knocking
Desperate to get in on this night
It begs me so incessantly
Indeed I fear I might
In a moment of weakness or perhaps of madness
Give in to it and its fright
For it speaks in lies that don’t seem to be lies
It speaks only from what I see
Horrors, shadows, unthinkable things
That somehow have come to be
It is true that they have happened
Alas, it’s true they exist
So despair knocks and knocks and knocks
And whispers ‘do not resist’
But it is a lie. Truly! A lie
For since when was the future only what I see?
Even snow on a high mountain top
Shall one day reach the sea
And a seed buried deep in the dark earth
We know will one day grow strong in the sun
So how can the now, the now that I see
Tell me ‘Give up! It is done!’?
For sight lies, don’t you see? It lies
It continues only on straight paths
But life? Oh life is a miracle!
That at the trend merely laughs
For in life impossibles happen
Remember! You’ll know it’s true
Something that shouldn’t have been
As happened to me must have happened to you
So laugh with me! Come laugh!
In the joy of the miracles before
And when despair comes knocking, laugh again!
For where there was one miracle there will be more!
Living will be to walk by faith and not by sight
For only by faith can one truly see
And trust and hope and keep on believing
In the miracles that soon someday will be!
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