Light and the Turning Away
Light and the Turning Away
A Double Sonnet
By Scott L.
We rise like mist beneath the morning’s flame,
A fragile breath inside a fleeting hour;
Our days, like petals falling, fade the same
Yet yearn for roots that never lose their power.
The heart still beats with questions time can’t still—
Why love, why loss, why hope that will not die?
Because beyond the grave, beyond the will,
A deeper voice keeps calling from the sky.
God breathed into our dust a living spark,
A soul that knows this world is not the end;
We sense His light even inside the dark,
A truth too fierce for death to comprehend.
Yet some still turn from voice and warm embrace,
And walk away from everlasting grace.
Not that God fails to love the broken soul—
He bled to bring the wandering ones back home;
The cross still stands, His open arms still whole,
Yet many choose the night instead of dawn.
The tragedy is not that Heaven’s closed—
The door stands wide, the invitation clear;
It’s that the wounded heart and fear still froze
And will not step toward mercy standing near.
This life is brief — a candle in the wind —
But what it touches echoes without end;
To know the One who loved us even when
We would not love Him back is where we mend.
For sinners justified by Christ’s own blood
Are welcomed into everlasting God.
