Just cause

[rancidredux]

Driving alone at night, past black nothings in distant fields;
no brilliant sight of life, no whispering blades on hills.
In time the black could leave and sunshine should prevail,
,but soon, so very soon, will pitch itself curtail.

To ignore the humble meaning of it all
or skip some piece for fear or noble call
would cause forgetfulness of truest truths
and cause,again, the midnight to prevail.

A man sits soulless in this house of stone
amongst sick friends such man could not have grown.
Not screaming, "Heaven's gates my soul shall sail!",
But rather hushed and lets midnight prevail.

If we, as unmarked mortals are to live
day by day with nothing more to give
to battered souls condemned by things they did,
the darkness, bitter black, will not be hid.