Darkness Surrounds

DARKNESS SURROUNDS It is still night Darkness surrounds And I sit in a small space of light Inside I write in quiet and peace Outside the War goes on Once I knew what it was to live Without others trying to destroy What I most care about But that was in another world long ago For forty years now I have lived with their hatred And their trying to kill us For forty years There has been violence And the threat of greater violence It is quiet inside And the darkness is everywhere I go on in this tiny space Waiting for the morning to come.