moonless night: redeeming folk rhythms

this is an enchanting song of a dark-dark night...

where moonless yet lighted by a thousand little flames

which light up for a while but not through the night;

and melody sifts like the wafting wind

transporting me to a land of long ago...

 

there, I left my childhood

among the desolate hills

there, tied to a thread

is some fond memory

 

in me, tonight there is light,

even in the darkest corners,

for the Light has come within,

and lighted my soul.

 

yet, I long for this Light,

to shine there too,

when no matter the truant moon be amiss,

there is the flood of light of the everlasting sun!

and the song that was once sung in pain,

is mine to sing in joy and eternal gain.