617. Chosen

I have known darkness.

I have known light.

I have known the morning.

I have known the night.

I have known creation.

I have known destruction.

I have known virtue.

I have known corruption.

I have known the uneven.

I have known the level.

I have known God.

I have known the devil.

I have known truth.

I have known lies.

I have known real.

I have known disguise.

I have known wrong.

I have known right.

I have known choice…

And have chosen Light!

K. Aldaya, 7/22/23

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604. Empowerment

Evil urgently seeks validation:

“Come hither, join,…agree,”

And grasps to near suffocation,…

Human souls, so desperately.

While Good needs no validation at all,

And ‘lone stands resolute.

For human hearts all know the call,

Of the morally absolute.

So stand alone…proud and strong. Do what’s right!

Strength is not in numbers,

Rather it’s in the Brightest Light,

To which darkness writhes and cowers.

For evil depresses,…

Good empowers.

K. Aldaya, 1/20/23

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