Back From The Fray

"I'm finally back!", to no-one, I said;
Gone the madness that left me half dead;
Gone is the whirling and spinning of thoughts;
Bursts of colour and angry retorts.
Gone is the sadness that had me so bound;
Too scared to move, lest I make a sound.

Like a leper I hid from light of day,
Waiting for darkness to take fear away.
Too scared to emerge from my patch of earth
I stockpiled and hoarded to save being hurt.
I built me a wall, the biggest around.
Behind it I hid. I could not be found.

But one day a stranger hunted me down.
He dug and he hounded; he coaxed me around.
His gentle discussions held great appeal;
How my soul longed for a life that was real.
He took me and taught me about my true light;
Told me not to hide, to let it burn bright.

In the shade of his friendship I came alive;
No longer a freak, but a creature of pride.
The pain that I held so long in my heart
Withered and died giving me a new start.
I shakilly took some steps from his side;
I teetered, and wobbled, and sometimes I cried.

The creature that lived as a shadow of self,
Gave birth to a being of energy and health.
I wish, everyday, to thank that kind soul;
Who saw me, so vividly, as completely whole.
To him I was never a failure at all,
But a being with beauty who survived a big fall.

And now it appears, he was right all along.
It seems I had merely forgotten my song.
Where once I had hidden; too dark to see,
I now bristled and brimmed with pure energy.
Surrounded by friends, new love in my heart,
So far removed from that shape in the dark.