- All Nonfiction
- Bullying
- Books
- Academic
- Author Interviews
- Celebrity interviews
- College Articles
- College Essays
- Educator of the Year
- Heroes
- Interviews
- Memoir
- Personal Experience
- Sports
- Travel & Culture
- All Opinions
- Bullying
- Current Events / Politics
- Discrimination
- Drugs / Alcohol / Smoking
- Entertainment / Celebrities
- Environment
- Love / Relationships
- Movies / Music / TV
- Pop Culture / Trends
- School / College
- Social Issues / Civics
- Spirituality / Religion
- Sports / Hobbies
- All Hot Topics
- Bullying
- Community Service
- Environment
- Health
- Letters to the Editor
- Pride & Prejudice
- What Matters
- Back
- Summer Guide
- Program Links
- Program Reviews
- Back
- College Guide
- College Links
- College Reviews
- College Essays
- College Articles
- Back
The Light of the World
Light warms your heavy bones
 It lifts the weights off your limbs
 It takes the burdens off your shoulders
 Making you forget you are Atlas
 It lets you see so much more
 
 The dew drops on a spiders web become crystal on thin string
 The dust motes in the air seem to make it dance
 Stained glass leaves beams of colors onto the ground before them
 
 All from light these things come and go
 Like shooting stars blinking across the sky
 All lightening your burden
 Making you forget you once held the world
 
 Let suns eat you up and let stars burn before you
 Forcing you to forget every bad thing that has happened
 
 You are not worth the world
 Not worth ten thousand worlds
 Let Chaos not let you hold them anymore
 Let Chaos know that you are worth more 
 That you are priceless and should bear no weight so heavy
 
 No burden except to love
 To love and be loved by me you were made
 To love and be surrounded by the light
 
 So Atlas, bear down the world and join me
 Join me and let me take you away
 
 Away from a burden you were forced to carry
 Away from a strain that cripples your back
 That cripples your arms and legs
 
 Let me take you away from a place that only serves to hurt you
 
 Let me do everything you ask
 Let me do anything you need
 Let my love fill every hole your burden has bore down onto you
 Let my love caress your every sore and ache and make you well again
 
 Release upon me your troubles 
 So I no longer have to see all it has wreaked upon you
 
 Rest now, dear Atlas
 Rest your weary arms
 Rest your aching back
 In a bed you have known once
 In a bed that is mine too
 
 Do not worry about me
 Do not worry about the burden I have taken
 For I can carry anything you need
 I can do everything you need
 For the light encompasses all, and I am all light
 
 The sky was not so much a burden to you as the world
 I took that from you too
 I would take a galaxy
 I would take a universe from your shoulders
 
 All the heavens do not deserve your touch
 Your touch is much too precious, too gentle, too strong
 Nothing is worth that, dear Atlas
 
 The suns and stars and heavens
 All bear light down upon what you have done
 All shine light on your strength
 Your perseverance is encompassed by light
 Is encompassed by me and my love
 
 Atlas, dear Atlas, bear down your burden
 Bear down this strain you have bore so long
 A hardship you should have never had known
 I will bear it for you so you may rest
 So you may sleep away the centuries and millennia 
 
 You stood and held all creation for too long
 It is time to pass it on
 To doze and dream of me, of light, of love
 It is time to rest, dear Atlas
 Sleep well, and let the light cover you
 Let me blanket you in warmth, in worship, in wonder
 
 Be at peace now, dear Atlas
 Your shoulders bear no more

Similar Articles
JOIN THE DISCUSSION
This article has 3 comments.
