Here I Lie With Fear.

Here I lie with the fear and Darkness washing over me.

The wave has not hit, but still the pre-wave of the Darkness washes over me.

I get up and continue down my path, feet falling one after another not looking where I am going, not looking where I have been, just going on.

What will I face as I trod this road, I do not feel that Frost was right when he say two roads diverge, I think that we just trod down the road, while we make choices that effect how the road will twist and turn, I do not see forks, just a single path.

I run, faster with each step, farther away from the on coming Darkness, yet the faster I go, the further I get, the closer it comes,

Will it over take me, will it be the end of this path I am on, or will it only help wash out what is past and make it easier to continue on towards the future.

Running, I will run and let my feet fall where they may, but I must not slow, I have to keep this pace or I will drop.

Running, I do not know if I am running to or running from, but running all the same, I must run.

Lord, please give me hope to continue on to where I am going, please give me strength to keep my eyes on the goal, so that the prize which is waiting down this path will be mine. Lord, help my feet to keep going, never slowing, send Your angels to keep my feet true.

…don’t let the Darkness end my path…

--Christopher Welker
6.23.04