The Message Poem by Richard Wlodarski

Came the morning
With the sun brighter
Than ever before

Came the morning
With a new message
Of hope

Came the sun
Piercing through
Obscured clouds

Came the message:
A new dawn is
Upon you now
Make of it
What you will

Choose to bathe
In its warmth
And see every
Ray of brilliance
As a new road
To your success
And happiness

OR

Choose to freeze
In Shadow's
Darkest realm
Seeing and
Hearing
Just nothing

If he could speak
He would now say:
Damn let me be
So much like you
Special someone
With personality
And now I will show you
That I can be Someone

Came the evening
With such deaf darkness
Like never before
And the lone Shadow
Now stood so frozen
In the dead of night
So damn paralyzed
Unable to speak
Unable to listen
Unable to move

BUT

They were able
Today to see
Today to think
Of the other
Reality
A better life
A life so full
Of such laughter
And happiness

And soon
The frozen darkness vanished
And morning was now announced