Do Not Go into the Night with Eyes Wide Shut

Do not go into the night alone

with eyes wide shut in fear.

stuffed with cotton candied rainbow numbness

and all that is good and true emptied from your mind.

Go my love with courage,

aware, with eyes opened and looking ahead

watching your loved ones beckon you

your own lamplighters illuming your path

Home.

and I, I who loved you

will hold your hand against the unknown

whispering lullabies into your tired heart

singing you to sleep, beyond pain and madness.

and you, you shall know that you go freed

from anger and all that has harmed you

straight into the heart of God.

Sleep now, sleep well my heart,

go softly into your night

eyes wide open and unafraid.

my whispered songs will open the gates

and those who wait for you will know their own

is walking a path strewn with the songs of love and light

Home.