I wept the tears that drained my heart

I uttered cries that chilled me
 I mouthed the silent desperate prayers
That left me with my fears

Till  finally, I stood before

A terrifying precipice
That dropped to sheer black nothing

While behind me roared a fire.

It was set to overtake me
And reduce me to mere ashes

As I stood there numbly waiting

And I watched in frozen fear.

I thought that all was over

And that Death or Madness waited

But, somehow, all my pleadings

Had been heard and help had come.

I don’t know how it happened

Or what was used to save me

But the Hand of God reached downward

And the endless void was gone.

I'm back now from the Darkness

I am back within the world of Life

Believing there is Destiny

That’s yet to be fulfilled.

I still have days of fear and pain

I haven’t quite ‘arrived’

But I am standing in a level place…

I’m back now from the edge.