How could I ever be misguided
When you lighten me so fully
Through the night, throughout the gully,
When I suffer, but I hide it?

Lift my spirit, give me hope,
When there’s no one there to love me,
When there’s only death around me,
And I slide, fall down the slope.

Lighthouse, dreams have come upon me,
Dreams of happiness and wonder.
You have touched me, placed me under
Your enormous light – you blind me.

For your truth is so delightful,
Yet I feel I knew it all –
In an ancient time, my soul
Was so lightened, so insightful!

Now I read the signs you taught me,
And remember love to give,
And to smile, to thank, to live,
As your light lives deep inside me.


Julia Kretsch
20 June 2006
Bucharest