God's Call (poem)

With a start I awoke,
as a nascent wish
earlier played itself out
within a dream
where inner danger
met its mirror,
and inner hope lay
in wait to be
fulfilled one day.

Within this startling dream,
I fought my shadow
in many ways, losing out
yet winning too,
until I conquered
fear itself, and
caught myself again
wishing to be
free from the pain.

Without this pain, I have
nothing but a wish
to undo choices, to mourn
the loss of friends
to the change called death,
and to find hope
in things I can change,
when hope is fresh,
for things I can change.

With this thought in mind,
though I forgot it,
that dream that startled me,
all that I have
is that hope within,
to change without
causing harm to all
while doing good,
for this is God's Call.