Rays  of  Hope

When your spirits are at their lowest ebb

When you feel unwittingly enmeshed in a cobweb

When friends turn foes for reasons unknown

When ulterior motives are attributed to cause, noble

When those around, cease to see goodness and instead malign

All that’s worthy, pure, beautiful and divine

When fellow beings revel in ignorant bliss

And a chance to tarnish you, they do not miss 

When you feel yourself enveloped in darkness

And you know not how to pull back your life’s harness

When baseless fear, with its jagged ends leaves you ravaged

When your faith is fumbling and hopelessness makes you aged

When you feel broken and your world seems falling apart

And you wish you’d rather from this world depart

Hold firm and fast to the One and Only Light

To Him, the Omnipresent, who never lets you out of his sight!

‘Tis not for you, God’s chosen one, to despair,

But to journey on more determinedly on your path so fair

For all of life is but an acid test

To bring out in you, the best, your very best.

 

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