Black's Despair 2008

Black is the color of a starless night,
the absence of any kind of light.
Its depth can draw a soul within,
where it knows not where day or night begins.

Black is sometimes the color of a man's skin,
for a race of people where no one knows where
black begins.
An excuse to put one man above another,
never considering him a spiritual brother.

Black is the color of an abandoned soul,
that no longer seeks the Savior he use to know.
Choosing instead a different road,
where hopelessness is its only abode.

Amos 5:20 Will not the Day of the Lord be
darkness, and not light--pitch black at that,
without a ray of sunshine?

Susan Hebert Ajaz
copyright 2008
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