My Writing or Artwork

Shades of Thought

I open my eyes, as if for the first time
Darkness is lifted, and I am blinded by colors
And light never before imaginable
An energy so new and radiant gleams all around me
I wonder, just for a moment, if I have died
Then I realize, I have not
But I have been reborn
With a tender touch and loving embrace
I have been awakened
Brought out from the lonely darkness
Which once consumed me
Into the light of love and passion
Which only took one person to ignite
With new purpose, I give myself to him
Love of my life
Light of my darkness
Companion of the soul

Mala - Published 2001

Children's Tale

I sat down to read a book of adventure and magic
I let my imagination lead, hoping the end isn't tragic
Later on I read the paper. Oh my! What's that I see?
An article about horrid acts, talk of satanists and treachery
Is this a review of the book I love? Truly this can't be!

To think fantasy stories are considered brutally unchristian
By this day and age I'd have figured
our minds would be bigger than persecution

A boy with a dream, in one hand a wand. A wizard boy cursed & charmed
What wondrous stories, such glorious tales!
If I need an escape this book never fails!

But deny a child such a phenomenal book?
To say it's satanic after just a look?
It's a child's tale for gosh sake, like Arthur & the Lady of the Lake

Have we sunk so low? Have we lost our love of fiction?
Please say it isn't so! This genre is my addiction!
I'm sure by now you get my gist, so I ask you to sit and ponder this
Is anything that opens a child's imagination truly the beginning of
his or her damnation?

Maybe it's just a story.

Mala