Darkness and mystique encompasses my dreary room

Gathering cobwebs lace my fingers when I touch it

The blackness, the bleakness, the enigmatic, this tomb 

Thick slabs of timber bolted down, making it unlit 

With rusting nails to make glum last

The isolation, the exclusiveness, the haze

A dusky veil, so large, so vast

No amount of scrunching can show me Light's ways

And there I stand and there I'm trapped – left here only to grow

The Darkness And Deficiency And Sunless Eclipse 

No one can ever know 



A hot and steaming shower

After freezing – no heat

The first bite of dainty food

When you’ve had nothing to eat

Seeing the people you’ve missed

Since the good old youthful days

Arriving home sweet home at last

Following countless delays

The rise and fall of the tide

Is how life is like the sea

The best things in this precious life

At no time come for free

After the good comes the bad

And after the bad comes the good

You’d never be too shattered or proud

If you really understood

Illness is a great necessity

Enhances the value of being well

And would Heaven be so highly thought of

If there was no such thing as Hell?

Success exists because of failures

Happiness ’cause of woe

What’s the joy of being on top

If you can’t see your start, below?

The bliss and rapture we feel in life

Always come from pain

Your experience of comfort is not complete

Without your experience of strain

So next time you face adversity

Throw the world a little grin

’Cause it’s the pain, the loss, the fiasco

That gives you the strength to win

And don’t be so dismayed

If sorrow visits your day

For times of triumph and paradise

Will surely be on your way!