Swept

Swept

Dark corners where secrets have been swept away.

Lurking in the shadows only telling faint mumblings of their truths.

I wait anxiously knowing that they will taunt me with their whispers,

but never fully revealing all that they are.

I'm swept away with the waves of guilt and shame that is not mine,

the blinks of the past sending my soul plummeting into the shadow depths.

A time when innocence was pure joy only to be stolen like a thief

in the night.

The dark seeps in through the cracks enveloping who I once had been,

dragging a bright spark to the treacherous abyss.

Swept into the seemingly nothingness, dark with no light,

a night with no dawn.

Crying out, but the darkness has taken it all and has left only silent sobs.

Finally a faint light shines through, I feel the chains release from my feet.

A quiet voice calls and the familiarity of it speaks to my entrenched soul.

I answer it's call and I'm swept up back through the cracks the darkness

had tried so hard to keep me asunder.

The light burns bright revealing all the dirty secrets that tried so desperately to hide.

They no longer can torment this soul, for without the dark the truth broken free from the lies.