Vincent Kuo (04 April 1989)

The world sleeps, silent and still
Lost in the memories of the yester-night
With hopes and dreams in a frozen chill
Still waiting to thaw with new light

I lay awake somehow, unable to rest
Trepidation like worms creep and crawl
They slither about in my tightening chest
Under a disturbed sleepless sprawl

The window panes seem furtively futile
As the outside landscape is black as coal
Only darkness to be seen for many a mile
Like the vacant depths of an abysmal hole

The deafening gloom envelopes my wits
Saturating all aspiring states of mind
It fills my head with empty pits
With only despair and dejection to find

Such awful darkness, such dreadful void
The blight is becoming too much to bear
All that's beautiful is slowly destroyed
To annihilation, no promise to spare

Then...gently…with a sort of tender kindness
The panes start to display an opaque veneer
To rid the world of its colour-blindness
Revealing the backdropp of the horizon sphere

Suddenly I feel a seed deep within me stir
A germination of some moving déjà-vu
The heavenly expanse seems to concur
And blends a cocktail of light purple-blue

The inner sprout begins to agitate
Provoking to escape the internal night
The landscapes now in a visible state
Flinging brighter colours into sight

Then...suddenly...an explosion of rays unfold
With the glorious light of the radiant Sun
Blasting the world in brilliant gold
And for a fleeting moment all seems done

It illuminates the landscape in a thousand shades
And all its magnificent pigments disclosed
It shears in a thousand beaming-blades
Chafing the worldly grunge exposed

My despair diminishes and washes away
The emptiness within me gradually filling
With renewed hope to greet the new day
My slumber is rid of the frozen chilling

Time stands still as I gaze towards the East
With the bright blazing warmth in my eyes
The intense rays like a mighty beast
Broke the darkest hours of my hopes' demise

The splendour of the new light upon my face
Revives, rejuvenates and invigorates my soul
Reminds me I'm alive! In Daybreak's grace!
Ready for a new fate, for today I am whole