Vindicated

Funny how in life's short day
A smile can turn the frowns away
And even more awesome is the sound
Of a friend who makes you turn around
A whisper or a firm appeal
To change the direction of one's zeal
In this is man a being free
From chains of weakness and disbelief

Funny how in life's short day
A smite often comforts and allays
Deep seated fears and insecurities
Manifesting themselves as incongruities
Joyful is the honest word
Wonderful is the healing purge
Shackles fall from laden arms
Soothing is the uncommon balm

Funny how in life's short day
Relieved we are by unusual ways
The voice we hope we will ever hear
Does nothing but dam back hidden tears
Deep in the recesses of our hearts
Lies a plea to God to tear it apart
Lightness there is in words of sharpness
Darkness there is in tongues of sweetness

Though men may not say,
All men do pray
That someone may come hailing
And show them their failings
For though it seem we be cast in the abyss
Yet for a fact we do know this
Temporary is the laceration
And liberating is the vindication