“Sometimes I Went to a Dark Place”, by Jody Gladding

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I liked it there

liked the way I could call into it

there is no light!

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and it would echo back ...... light!

I liked the way it sounded, my voice calling

there is no light! ..... and the chorus back calling

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light! ..... So I went often, stayed long

listening to my voice and the chorus

it called from the dark.

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But once, after much calling and echoing, my voice failed,

and as it failed, the echo faded

and I said to myself there is no light.

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No light I said again, and there was no echo.

No light I whispered because my voice had failed

and there was no echo.

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So I turned whispering light

and I ran saying light

and I found my way out and called

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light! ...... finding my voice again

in a chorus calling back

light from a dark place.