“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!”
[“Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate!”]
“Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.”
-
Dante (Dante Alighieri; 1265-1321)
The darkness once consumed the sight,
Consuming the happiness in eternal night;
Filling the dreams with fearful fright,
Demonic nightmares, devoid of light.
Fighting despair with all the might;
Hoping for relief – shining bright.
Within the void of a dream -
No peaceful respite, to be seen.
Wandering lost in desperation in between;
In damnation, no salvation did gleam.
Deep in devoid, land of the unclean;
Trapped eternally, or so it did seem.
Till redemption shone from high, down;
Illuminating the ashen, blackened ground;
Penetrating the darkness once all around.
As an ear is enveloped by piercing sound.
The hopefulness that now surrounds -
Through God and Poetry, new life was found.
Composed By: Andrew Drucker