The Rise Poem by Nathan Kraft

A spark ignites the deepening darkness,
and this solemn young man searches desperatly through the mist.
Monsters reach out to retrieve him,
but the boy fights.
Screaming and kicking all the way until he trips and falls.
and he violently begins his agonizing effort against the digging claws.
Angels call to him,
behind their stained glassed and bullet proof windows.
The light so near yet so far away,
and his demons are already dragging him astray.
Fighting, screaming, growling and crying.
The boy once again receeds into darkness.
His demons dragging him, laughing and joking,
Until the light fades and the boy is surrounded by the dark mist again.
and begins his lonely search for that light and the rest of his life to begin.