Raise up your Sword and Shield

When did the bad outweigh the good?

When did hope flee the everlasting night?

When did strength, bow to weakness?
When did my heart fade to emptiness?
How did faith suddenly become hard to grasp?

Darkness came,
The light fled in it's wake.
The long night filled your day,
and you couldn't escape it.
The void of nothing,
Become full of bleakness and senselessness.
Suddenly you forgot why you were here to begin with,
suddenly nothing made sense anymore...

How do you..
What was it?
Will it ever?
Far too long you were...
Like wondering through an arctic wasteland,
void of water, shrouded in darkness, perpetually cold..

Suddenly, it hit you.
As a jolt of lightning,
It came upon you..
The light to your senses.
Suddenly you remembered again.
The flittering thought of,
Even through your cluttered senses, you remembered...

Hope.
You had it once.
Faith.
In yourself, in something.
Strength.
Once you were defined by it.
Love.
Used to define your purpose.
Happiness.
How you radiated it.
Purpose.
You always knew...

Raise them.
Lift up your mind,
Soak in the warmth.
What once was, can be again.

Redefine your purpose.
Stand back up...

Suddenly a glimmer of light entered back into your eyes.
Suddenly you knew again.
Suddenly you believed again,
If only a little, you still knew.
Happiness can be yours again.
Love can find its way back into your heart.
Purpose and Strength in a resolve gives you a new meaning.

Faith raised it's head up High
Though the hush of night, clouded your soul,
You can become again,
The person you see for yourself.