You Are Light

This isn't exactly a poem, but I've been writing music for the last four or five years. I don't have that many songs to my name, but I thought maybe it is time I share some of my songs on my blog :) I wrote this one last night. It is very poorly recorded (haha my first experience using Garage Band), no idea what I did to make it so echo-y, but you get the idea :)


(I wrote this to myself, but I think it's what we should all tell ourselves and each other)

A Lover's Persecution

The Bab's death left a hollow

No words can ever fill

And the horrors that would follow

Leave the ink of my pen still

In the torment of His lovers

One can find no greater pain 

Yet with each story one discovers

The heights of love we can attain

The years following that tragic day

Were filled with grief and confusion

And the actions of a few who lost their way

Ignited a new wave of intense persecution

Thousands were mercilessly tortured and killed

For believing in the power of His Blessed Name

Yet the goals of the clergy were never fulfilled

For their deaths only served to fan the Faith's flame

The essence of the love felt by each man who died

Could not but affect the hearts of those who observed

For their steadfastness and joy could not be denied

Nor their gratitude for the end they were served

These persecutions have not yet ceased

Though they've continued over one hundred and fifty years

But through the sacrifices of it's tormented lovers in the East

The Sun of His Glory continues to reach new frontiers