Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Become Light

Too often the child is cast in

A world of darkness all around,

Forced to live with old hate and sin,

No glimmer of hope to be found.

Hard walls do hold the child in tight.

There's little chance the child will be

Ever able to find the light.

The child lives the reality

That even if the child should live

Somehow to reach an adulthood.

However can the child forgive

A growing up with nothing good?

Sometimes the child can find the will

To become light that does fulfill.