THE TREASURE WITHIN

In a deep and secret place
there’s a treasure often hidden,
by a plague of sin and darkness
so infected, disease ridden.

Light can no longer penetrate
to touch the seed within,
in pool of miasmatic squalor
in this fetid din of sin.

Then comes a prayer, caress, a touch
from someone with love to spare,
and a little crack is opened up
in this pit of deep despair.

That’s all it takes to bring about
the flow of light to deep within,
the heavy lid of evil lifted
letting love to grow therein.

The treasure then begins to shine
and all the darkness is released,
the cracks and crevices thus filled
with God’s pure love and peace.

Margaret Rose Larrivee
June 17, 1993