starlit night

It was a voice that I heard on a starlit night
As I shed bitter tears all alone
All the things that it said
Rumbled ‘round in my head
And I listened as truth overflowed
What was not meant to be
Is never to be
What might yet be is unknown
And the final words spoke by this voice in the night
Were the ones that I needed to know

There is no love without pain
There is no joy without love
There is no wisdom without ignorance
There is no light without dark

There is no wet without dry
There is no you without I
There is no place that’s too far to go
There is no lost without home

(copyright 2006 d. b. michel)