I Walk Alone in the Night

Preface: I wrote this back in December 1990, at a time when I was going through one of the darkest periods I've ever known. From time to time through the years since, I've come back to it, not to relive the past, but to remember that deep painful struggle and the perspective it gives to where I am at now. Because, as much as I wanted to give up, something got me through it. That something was one quiet voice that cared enough to listen...

I WALK ALONE IN THE NIGHT

I walk alone in the night

Lost in darkness within and without

Searching for a glimmer of light

To show me that I'm not alone

That my dreams are more than just dreams

I walk alone in the night

Untouched by joy or pain

I ache for the sunlight of companionship

But my tears give me only rain

The echo of my heart, thunder

I walk alone in the night

No stranger to the shadows of despair

For in my lonely world are others

Others like me, beyond my reach

All of us alone in the dark

I walk alone in the night

Until, at last, I see a hand

Reaching for mine, promising the dawn

Boldly I take it, afraid to let go

And step back into the sunlight