The Glowing Light

I’ve been battered

Completely shattered into splinters

Beaten down to a pulp

Abandoned in the back of a junkyard

Swallowed in the ocean’s abyss

Neglected and forgotten

Broken

Left to rot

Discarded beneath the dirt

I’ve been in padded rooms

And fought off medical experiments

Dodged psychiatrists' false presumptions

I’ve been image enhanced

And held hands with the devil

Raged with a brain in zero gravity

Through all the pain I’ve suffered

I somehow endured

Without reason

Without encouragement

Without recognition

I survived

And so glad I did

Because if it wasn’t for you

I’d end

The love you gave me –

Unconditional

Non-transactional

Unrestricted

Compassionate and passionate

Fierce and tender

The love I have for you –

It was imminent

Without fear

My most sincere truth

You lit the glowing light

         Inside my heart

         That refuses to go dark

You make all the reasons to be alive

      to stay alive

You are the reason

         I choose morning

         Again, and again 

© 2026 David Greg Harth

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