Out Of The Darkness(A Poem Of Love's Rescue) Poem by Chris Embrick

He never knew the mother who abandoned him at birth
And not the father who wanted love without commitment
Jon was raised by a stranger who had a loving heart
His life was filled with memories of her kindness and teaching
She did her best to explain the beauty he could only imagine
She never once heard Jon complain about being born sightless.

Through his senses he explored the world around him, sightless
He clung to the stranger who rescued him at birth
She described all the sound-makers he could only imagine
To her adopted son, Mary gave a life time of commitment
He hardly remembers a time when she wasn't singing or teaching
She taught him to use his mind and love with his heart

Mary grew up no stranger to her own broken heart
To many of her needs her parents were sightless
She learned from hardship much of her teaching
She lost her only child through a difficult birth
Mary too had a lover who wanted no commitment
She believed she could achieve what she could imagine

In his world of darkness, abstract things were hard to imagine
The time would come when Jon would struggle with his heart
Mary's dreams were put on hold because of her commitment
There were days when her own desires for life seemed sightless
No one could foresee what her devotion to Jon would birth
She was learning the meaning of life from her own teaching

Jon learned more from Mary's heart than from her text book teaching
He began to believe he could do whatever he could imagine
His extraordinary talent for music would soon give birth
He sat for hours at the piano playing with all his heart
When he first auditioned, few knew that he was sightless
His music instructor, Rose was taken by his unfailing commitment

Mary knew Jon's future depended on his commitment
She smiled watching Rose now doing the formal teaching
To their affection, she pretended to be sightless
Even a handsome blind man has love to imagine
His love was the first to steal Rose's heart
A beautiful love over time was destined to birth


Close friends celebrated their commitment-a wedding few could imagine
Mary saw the fruit of her teaching-a strong and giving heart
At her grand-daughter's birth, Jon began to understand life's beauty, sightless.